Intro­duc­ing newsdiffs.org! A project born out of the Knight Mozilla MIT hackathon on June 17, 2012 in 38 hours (includ­ing sleep). Eric Price and Greg Price did the programming.

Greg and Eric, who are broth­ers, have both placed in the world ACM Inter­na­tional Col­le­giate Pro­gram­ming Con­test, as well as the Inter­na­tional Olympiad in Infor­mat­ics, the world com­pe­ti­tion for high school students.

Greg, who works at Tddium, has his mas­ters in the­o­ret­i­cal com­puter sci­ence from MIT and a bach­e­lors in math­e­mat­ics from Har­vard. (He also led the YouTomb project, which tracked videos removed from YouTube). Eric is cur­rently in his third year of a PhD in the­o­ret­i­cal com­puter sci­ence from MIT and spend­ing the sum­mer at Microsoft Research.

To the right is anexam­ple of a story that evolved about the health of for­mer Egypt­ian pres­i­dent Hosni Mubarak, first when it was repor­teed that he was “clin­i­cally dead” and then later that he had suf­fered a stroke.