Reddit’s super-short attention span

Want to read Reddit but don’t have the time? Our daily Reddit Digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the social news site—every morning.

• Reddit remembers one of its first employees, Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide Jan. 11. (r/blog)
   
• Are these the best Reddit threads of all time? (r/AskReddit)
   
• Six days ago, redditor Karmanaut wrote an excellent long comment explaining why long comments don’t do well on Reddit. It was mostly ignored. (r/bestof)
   
• Back in the good ol’ days of buccaneering, how did multinational pirate crews communicate? (r/AskHistorians)
   
• Think Windows 8 is the worst (or best) thing ever? Ask a Microsoft employee anything. (r/IAmA)
   
• How did people wake up before alarm clocks? (r/AskHistorians)
   
• Is Gawker spamming Reddit? (r/MetaHub)

Pic of the day: Here is an album of sharp things magnified. (r/pics)

Hottest subreddit: r/onejob (1 day)