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61.		Font Smoothing Detection in Browsers (swapped.cc)
		9 points by latitude on Aug 28, 2011 \| 6 comments
62.		Qminder que management app wins Garage48 hackathon (qminderapp.com)
		9 points by jkaljundi on Aug 28, 2011 \| 3 comments
63.		Steve Jobs Broke Every Leadership Rule. Don't Try It Yourself. (forbes.com/sites/frederickallen)
		8 points by guptaneil on Aug 28, 2011 \| 3 comments
64.		Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from? (thenextweb.com)
		8 points by franze on Aug 28, 2011
65.		Singularity University graduates a class of tech world changers (venturebeat.com)
		8 points by evo_9 on Aug 28, 2011
66.		Reputation Patterns - Design Pattern Library - YDN (yahoo.com)
		8 points by Jasitis on Aug 28, 2011
67.		Ask HN: Are we ever going to run out of space?
		8 points by joshmlewis on Aug 28, 2011 \| 9 comments
68.		Ask HN: How do I download "saved stories"?
		8 points by vkdelta on Aug 28, 2011 \| 2 comments
69.		The Dead End Cult of Burning Man (wsj.com)
		7 points by jkuria on Aug 28, 2011 \| 1 comment
70.		Mini game from start to launch in 5 hours (pixeltweak.net)
		7 points by tylerdiaz on Aug 28, 2011
71.		The World's Largest Klein Bottle (kleinbottle.com)
		7 points by ColinWright on Aug 28, 2011 \| 1 comment
72.		The first zombie-proof house (all-that-is-interesting.com)
		7 points by cominatchu on Aug 28, 2011 \| 1 comment
73.		I Want to Die (jamesaltucher.com)
		7 points by jaltucher on Aug 28, 2011 \| 2 comments
74.		Guy hacks Kindle to use external buttons for his sis with Cerebral Palsy (breadboardconfessions.blogspot.com)
		7 points by chaostheory on Aug 28, 2011
75.		Ask HN: Has Google search quality abruptly went down in the last week?
		7 points by huhtenberg on Aug 28, 2011 \| 4 comments
76.		Ask HN: Which open source project should I contribute to?
		7 points by digamber_kamat on Aug 28, 2011 \| 8 comments
77.		Stop using SQLite for Rails dev (nfm.id.au)
		7 points by nfm on Aug 28, 2011 \| 14 comments
78.		Ask HN (Ask Tptacek): Are RSA SecurIDs Fundamentally Flawed?
		7 points by jashkenas on Aug 28, 2011 \| 2 comments
79.		Boeing's 787 Backlog Visualized (flightglobal.com)
		6 points by mef on Aug 28, 2011
80.		A good explanation of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (natural language processing) (quora.com)
		6 points by LiveTheDream on Aug 28, 2011
81.		Google+ Is An Identity Service (avc.com)
		6 points by franze on Aug 28, 2011
82.		Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is the most stable mobile phone OS (zdnet.com)
		6 points by Garbage on Aug 28, 2011 \| 7 comments
83.		Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos (sixtysymbols.com)
		6 points by prtk on Aug 28, 2011
84.		The upcoming Amazon’s Android tablet to eclipse the iPhone App Store. (altudov.com)
		6 points by DenisM on Aug 28, 2011 \| 11 comments
85.		2001-2011: Technology under Presidents Gore and Romney (erehweb.wordpress.com)
		6 points by erehweb on Aug 28, 2011 \| 2 comments
86.		Python Fiddle (pythonfiddle.com)
		6 points by madao on Aug 28, 2011 \| 1 comment
87.		Ask HN: Minor vs Major in CS
		6 points by MaxGabriel on Aug 28, 2011 \| 5 comments
88.		NYC seed VC John Frankel talks in London about "unbelievable opportunities" (scott-allison.net)
		5 points by scottallison on Aug 28, 2011
89.		TV reporter gives report covered in toxic sea foam (myfoxny.com)
		5 points by thematt on Aug 28, 2011
90.		Jeremy Ashkenas: CoffeeScript for the Well-Rounded Rubyist (vimeo.com)
		5 points by flashingpumpkin on Aug 28, 2011
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