About the ranking algorithms:<p>"techyaks": Primarily uses signals from stories and comments on Hacker News, with some youtube signals thrown in. This is effectively a "best talks according to hacker news" ranking.<p>"wilsonscore": Wilson confidence intervals [0] from youtube likes and dislikes. Previous discussion about this site when it had only the Wilson score ranking: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17988464" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17988464</a><p>[0]: <a href="https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...</a>