It's probably less algorithmic and more arbitrary.
That is nothing like the list I would have seen 15 years ago when I first joined in 2009. Then again I don't miss the "101 ways to not need sleep and work all night on your startup" posts.
Really seems to have shifted away from anything entrepreneurship or running your own business, the mantle it took over from Joel's "Business of Software" forum. Wonder where that discussion's all gone.
Plus I just got a reminder how rubbish Google is right now and how vulnerable they are to having their lunch eaten. I couldn't remember what Joel Spolsky's foum was called, and it kept returning absolute crap for various search terms that would have instantly worked 5 years ago.
God, I sound like a grumpy old man, but the internet has turned shite. Or at least how I consume it has.