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Comment author: Punoxysm 14 November 2014 06:11:49PM 2 points [-]

The algorithm combines recency and total upvotes. It also takes subreddit origin into account so that the totally massive subreddits don't dominate completely.

All the code is open-source if you want to go really deep, but basically upvotes + time penalty.