How do the "Interesting" and "Hot" tabs work?

Question

I see two tabs, "Interesting" and "Hot" on Stack Overflow. How do they work?

Answer 1

If you hover over the tab names in the user interface, a tooltip will appear to describe them to you:

Interesting:

Questions that may be of interest to you based on your history and tag preferences

Hot:

Questions with the most views, answers and votes over the last few days

This related question discusses the selection of "Hot" questions in more detail.