Best of 2011

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2011. 184 posts.

Security & Privacy
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Undeletable Cookies

A couple of weeks ago Wired reported the discovery of a new, undeletable, web cookie: Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s most popular sites are using a tracking service that can’t be evaded—even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers’ “incognito”…