http://blog.reddit.com/2013/01/aaronsw-1986-2013.html

Sad News…NYT reported by Ravi Somaiya.

Aaron Swartz, was found dead in his New York apartment. Mr. Swartz, a wizard of the internet and only 26 years of age, had apparently hanged himself, and that a friend of Mr. Swartz’s had discovered the body. At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, the nearly ubiquitous tool that allows users to subscribe to online information.  He formed a company that merged with Reddit, the popular news and information site. He also co-founded Demand Progress, a group that promotes online campaigns on social justice issues — including a successful effort, with other groups, to oppose a Hollywood-backed Internet piracy bill.

Mr. Wolf said he would remember his nephew, who had written in the past about battling depression and suicidal thoughts, as a young man who “looked at the world, and had a certain logic in his brain, and the world didn’t necessarily fit in with that logic, and that was sometimes difficult.”