Questions about Top Stories

The DC homepage has a Top Stories panel.

What makes a story appear here?

When I click the "View All" link (highlighted above) I get the page at https://community.intersystems.com/top-stories

This one seems to reload periodically, each time displaying more and more posts. Will it ever stop? Or maybe it'll try and load every post there's ever been.

Perhaps because of the periodic reloading, the Comments, Views and Rating counts never seem to appear alongside the entries: