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61.		Airplanes Can Now Take Off and Land With GPS. Will Flights Be Faster? (mashable.com)
		35 points by hoag on Feb 8, 2012 \| 28 comments
62.		Writing Smell Detector (WSD) - a tool for finding problematic writing (onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
		34 points by john_horton on Feb 8, 2012 \| 17 comments
63.		Embark (YC S11) wins "Best transit app" award (thenextweb.com)
		32 points by davidwhodge on Feb 8, 2012 \| 15 comments
64.		IRC + Threads make better communications - Pizzatimes.org (hozumi.github.com)
		31 points by t_hozumi on Feb 8, 2012 \| 18 comments
65.		Parse now has Facebook user support in Android SDK (parse.com)
		30 points by tikhon on Feb 8, 2012 \| 1 comment
66.		Pot.js is a utility library that can execute JavaScript without burdening CPU. (polygonplanet.github.com)
		26 points by jenhsun on Feb 8, 2012 \| 8 comments
67.		How Nasa makes those incredible high-res images of Earth (wired.co.uk)
		25 points by ukdm on Feb 8, 2012 \| 3 comments
68.		Show HN: Help beta test our new app
		26 points by csallen on Feb 8, 2012 \| 17 comments
69.		Introducing TrailerMatic.com (briangreenbaum.com)
		25 points by jtokash on Feb 8, 2012 \| 17 comments
70.		Pinterest Hits 10 Million Monthly Uniques Faster Than Any Standalone Site Ever (techcrunch.com)
		24 points by jansen on Feb 8, 2012 \| 5 comments
71.		What Wikipedia Won't Tell You (nytimes.com)
		23 points by citadrianne on Feb 8, 2012 \| 16 comments
72.		Mapping the Road Ahead for Autonomous Cars (wired.com)
		23 points by ryandvm on Feb 8, 2012 \| 11 comments
73.		LetsLunch2.0 New Look and New features (letslunch.com)
		24 points by syed123 on Feb 8, 2012 \| 3 comments
74.		UX Ideas for GrubWithUs (jasonshah.org)
		22 points by jason_shah on Feb 8, 2012 \| 4 comments
75.		Why YouTube's HTML5 Player Sucks (chrismorris.co)
		21 points by ChrisMorrisCo on Feb 8, 2012 \| 28 comments
76.		You built it. How do you get users?
		21 points by mcartyem on Feb 8, 2012 \| 12 comments
77.		Executives Of Swedish Start-Up Klarna Arrested For Kidnapping And Rape (techcrunch.com)
		20 points by bluemoon on Feb 8, 2012 \| 7 comments
78.		Apple pulls cloned games from App Store (venturebeat.com)
		20 points by ukdm on Feb 8, 2012 \| 26 comments
79.		Ask Successful People of HN: What influenced your personal growth the most?
		19 points by kyro on Feb 8, 2012 \| 2 comments
80.		Ask HN: Where next to take my startup, Junto
		21 points by marcymarcy on Feb 8, 2012 \| 15 comments
81.		Brightbox announces availability of Windows servers on its cloud infrastructure (brightbox.com)
		18 points by gnufied on Feb 8, 2012
82.		Does Fear Rule You? (deliberatism.com)
		17 points by shelkie on Feb 8, 2012 \| 4 comments
83.		The formula that makes a video go viral (virool.com)
		19 points by il on Feb 8, 2012 \| 1 comment
84.		With Funding In Tow, Uniiverse Launches Platform For Collaborative Living (techcrunch.com)
		16 points by FluidDjango on Feb 8, 2012 \| 5 comments
85.		Microsoft’s attack on Linux: The hardware way (linuxstall.com)
		16 points by LinuxStall on Feb 8, 2012 \| 16 comments
86.		The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: February 2012 (redmonk.com)
		15 points by sogrady on Feb 8, 2012 \| 4 comments
87.		SSL Traffic Analysis on Google Maps (ioactive.com)
		15 points by lignuist on Feb 8, 2012
88.		Raise the Crime Rate (nplusonemag.com)
		14 points by joejohnson on Feb 8, 2012 \| 3 comments
89.		Go vs C benchmark. Could Go be faster than C? (costumero.es)
		14 points by kbd on Feb 8, 2012
90.		Node.native, NodeJS and Luvit(Lua) Showdown (devthought.com)
		13 points by okal on Feb 8, 2012 \| 2 comments
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