I don't know if it's a matter of the curation or voting patterns, but there were no technical posts on the list. Make of that what you will.

"Highest-rated articles of January": could you tweak things to display the point-count/comment-count?

What exactly does curated mean? Are these hand picked as the highest-rated, or automatically selected based on point-count/some other metric?

What does the 'ABC' metric mean?

You should add the links to the HN discussions alongside the links to the articles.