Currently, A New Approach To China, 1125 points. See <a href="http://top.searchyc.com/submissions_by_points" rel="nofollow">http://top.searchyc.com/submissions_by_points</a>
700+ votes is ridiculous.<p>But compare those 700 votes on a single post to all the votes for posts calling Steve Jobs a crazy loon for the iPhone SDK TOS fiasco.
As HN is (presumably) growing, you'd need to normalise this figure using the number of unique visitors at the time the submission was made or something.