[Muuuchem]

I am new to the scene and definitely gonna bookmark Techmeme. So basically, if my understanding from skimming the article is accurate, TM is very similar to HN except that they have a team hand-selecting the articles rather than relying on a vote system?

[Pxl_Buzzard]

Techmeme mostly has human curation and a little bit of automation, though it is hard to tell from the outside how much that factors in. Human curators also rename article titles to provide a summary of the contents in an attempt to save you a click if you don't want more detailed information.

[rschroed]

Isn't the other way around? Mostly algo / automation with a layer or curation? At least that's how I think it used to work, maybe that's changed.

At the very least it seems like the clustering is algorithmic and "most" of the ranking.

Source: Too lazy to look up the 6 year old article that I kinda remember talking about this.

[basch]

techmeme is like drudgereport. a small team posting hyperlinks to what you should consider most important.

the river is a chronology http://www.techmeme.com/river