Comment by embedding-shape

> One of these days I plan to scrape all of mine so I can sort by karma and do some meta-commentary

Seems simple enough, while searching I came across this snippet you can paste in the console, and gives you a sorted list of most upvoted/downvoted comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36107028

Sadly requires hitting news.ycombinator.com rather than the API, but only way to get the actual points as you mention.