Hacker News on 18 February 2010

• School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
• Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building
• Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures hides lawsuits via 1000+ shell companies
• Shady URL: Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
• Unladen Swallow to be merged into Python 3
• Toward a Grand Unified Theory of n00bs
• Why the Windows Registry sucks … technically
• CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards
• Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation
• Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge