Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Wednesday Feb 27, 2013

0.973 Politicians want “loser pays” rule for patent trolls comments

0.908 Python for Ruby Programmers (LA RubyConf 2013) comments

0.757 FreedomBox Version 0.1 Released comments

0.557 A simple solution to credit card fraud, part 3: the startup that never was comments

0.493 How PHP’s foreach works comments

0.467 The Glass Bicycle comments

0.382 Why BitcoinStore is going to bring an end to a Decade of PayPal comments

0.369 Reproducing the Macintosh Boot Beep from JavaScript Cloud Code comments

0.270 MIT’s Saturday hoax incident comments

0.205 How safe is your password with Verizon? comments

0.120 SimplyInsured (YC W13) Wants To Help Take The Pain Out Of Health Insurance comments

0.112 Crouton: Chromium OS Ubuntu Chroot Environment comments

0.102 Inventing a Dating App That Women Will Actually Use comments

0.061 Weeks after adding Trader Joe’s, Instacart now supports Whole Foods comments

0.044 Permanent - the new spreadsheet for iPad comments

0.030 Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS comments