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You can pay these persons, but HN has a automatic voting ring detector and other manual methods, so it's possible that many of those upvotes of "high karma accounts" are ignored. Also, bad post with so many upvotes usually get mean comments and flags. My guess is that HN regular smells most of these attempts.

[My recommendation is to just post your link with a comment explaining that you are the author and some background, and be active in the thread to answer most of the questions, and cross your fingers.]

Anyway, fake/bought votes is a topic where dang usually loose his temper. If you want to trigger him, just say that he is not detecting them. (My guess is that he invest a lot of time in that, but he can't brag about that and can't make a nice post about that. So it's a lot of moderation work that is invisible.)