Suez canal blocked by a massive ship — and Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

Issue #352 — March 25, 2021

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Suez canal blocked by a massive ship twitter.com \| points: 958 \| comments: 378

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Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store github.com \| points: 776 \| comments: 349

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Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’ gamerevolution.com \| points: 495 \| comments: 470

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’Do Not Split’: A Hong Kong protest film [video] fieldofvision.org \| points: 443 \| comments: 220

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Show HN: I wrote a book about Go practical-go-lessons.com \| points: 424 \| comments: 79

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TLS 1.0, 1.1 officially deprecated datatracker.ietf.org \| points: 383 \| comments: 128

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The End of AMP? lafoo.com \| points: 354 \| comments: 200

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Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing blog.mozilla.org \| points: 347 \| comments: 107

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The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now jeffgeerling.com \| points: 341 \| comments: 157

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The Python Package Index is now a GitHub secret scanning integrator github.blog \| points: 325 \| comments: 94

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They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions texasmonthly.com \| points: 316 \| comments: 428

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Gnome 40 forty.gnome.org \| points: 300 \| comments: 175

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PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder pine64.com \| points: 297 \| comments: 276

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Multiple US Navy destroyers swarmed by mysterious ’drones’ off California coast thedrive.com \| points: 278 \| comments: 250

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America’s bald eagle population continues to soar fws.gov \| points: 271 \| comments: 162

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Closing web browser windows doesn’t close connections lapcatsoftware.com \| points: 267 \| comments: 143

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The Solution of the Zodiac Killer’s 340-Character Cipher blog.wolfram.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 44

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I finally escaped Node acco.io \| points: 235 \| comments: 153

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Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) smithsonianmag.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 222

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Study finds walking improves creativity (2014) news.stanford.edu \| points: 233 \| comments: 69

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