Hacker points are awareded as follows: players are ranked from top to bottom in order of the sum of the squares of the difficulty of challenges solved. (This encourages solving of more difficult challenges.) The top solver gets 200 points, the next (200 * 0.9), the next (200 * 0.9 * 0.9) and so on.
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The actual rankings (http://www.hacker.org/challenge/top.php) are listed based purely on number of challenges completed - shouldn't they also list your sumsq score, and sort according to that?