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• Show HN: White Ops: An educational cybersecurity game

  by pwthornton on 10/10/2025, 2:47 PM with 0 comments

• iPhone Air sets the stage for the future

  by pwthornton on 9/21/2025, 9:34 PM with 1 comments

• She owes a private school $27,000. Her daughter never attended

  by pwthornton on 8/4/2025, 12:46 AM with 7 comments

• by pwthornton on 7/24/2025, 3:28 PM with comments

• Peloton appoints Apple Fitness Plus cofounder as new CEO

  by pwthornton on 10/31/2024, 2:15 PM with 0 comments

• Meta's new smart glasses look like the future

  by pwthornton on 9/27/2024, 2:43 PM with 1 comments

• Reviewing products doesn't teach you how to build them

  by pwthornton on 9/26/2024, 2:06 PM with 0 comments

• Apple AirPod Pro 2s can now work as hearing aids

  by pwthornton on 9/12/2024, 2:17 PM with 38 comments

• An Ohio school district rushed to integrate classrooms

  by pwthornton on 8/16/2023, 7:04 PM with 0 comments

• Automatic emergency braking systems required on US vehicles under NHTSA proposal

  by pwthornton on 6/1/2023, 4:44 PM with 0 comments

• The Latest Innovation in Beer Is Water in a Can

  by pwthornton on 8/25/2022, 1:39 PM with 1 comments

• Pressure, Crunch, Blacklist Fears: The MCU's Visual Effects Artists Speak Out

  by pwthornton on 8/23/2022, 1:02 AM with 0 comments

• It Now Costs $300k to Raise a Child

  by pwthornton on 8/22/2022, 2:14 PM with 2 comments

• Tony Fadell on the pitfalls of A/B testing and how it's not product design

  by pwthornton on 8/21/2022, 4:13 PM with 0 comments

• Elon Musk wins access to files from Twitter’s former head of product

  by pwthornton on 8/17/2022, 12:37 PM with 0 comments

• American Airlines places order for 20 supersonic jets from Boom Supersonic

  by pwthornton on 8/16/2022, 9:22 PM with 2 comments

• A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 (2020)

  by pwthornton on 8/16/2022, 6:22 PM with 355 comments

• You can't A/B test yourself to product transformation

  by pwthornton on 8/11/2022, 5:22 PM with 0 comments

• How the Apple Magic Mouse charges is the least of its design issues

  by pwthornton on 3/17/2022, 11:41 AM with 0 comments

• The market needed the Apple Studio Display

  by pwthornton on 3/10/2022, 3:15 AM with 0 comments

• Her High School Said She Ranked Third in Her Class. So She Went to Court

  by pwthornton on 5/29/2021, 3:10 AM with 0 comments

• Why Even the Studios Behind Bestselling Games Shut Down

  by pwthornton on 5/9/2021, 3:21 PM with 0 comments

• What the “Black tax” does to so many families – including mine

  by pwthornton on 3/31/2021, 4:12 PM with 0 comments

• Mars might be hiding most of its old water underground, scientists say

  by pwthornton on 3/17/2021, 1:37 AM with 0 comments

• Honda plans to sell two electric SUVs in the US in the 2024 model year

  by pwthornton on 3/14/2021, 11:41 PM with 0 comments

• Apple cancels the HomePod after failing to find product-market fit

  by pwthornton on 3/13/2021, 2:43 PM with 0 comments

• Activity-Centered Design Personas

  by pwthornton on 3/12/2021, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from the Playstation Store with full refunds

  by pwthornton on 12/18/2020, 1:45 AM with 23 comments

• Games Made Under Crunch Conditions Don’t Deserve ‘Best Direction’ Awards

  by pwthornton on 12/13/2020, 5:33 PM with 0 comments

• Legislative and government funding response to COVID-19

  by pwthornton on 4/6/2020, 2:10 PM with 0 comments

• If I die in this room please blame the designer

  by pwthornton on 1/31/2020, 9:21 PM with 1 comments

• What Netflix understands that HBO Now doesn’t (but may be forgetting)

  by pwthornton on 1/20/2020, 6:23 PM with 0 comments

• The Russia Left Behind

  by pwthornton on 10/29/2019, 7:52 PM with 0 comments

• Is the Sonos Move Well Designed? A UX Review

  by pwthornton on 10/2/2019, 5:29 PM with 0 comments

• The Magic of the Daily Demo

  by pwthornton on 6/29/2019, 6:54 PM with comments

• If you want to work somewhere, just ask

  by pwthornton on 6/28/2019, 3:01 AM with 0 comments

• HTTPS: //medium.com/ pwthornton/the-magic-of-the-daily-demo-45773665b256

  by pwthornton on 6/26/2019, 4:04 AM with comments

• Samsung Galaxy Fold is why we don’t ship prototypes

  by pwthornton on 4/18/2019, 1:58 AM with 0 comments

• WTF does “unblank projector” mean?

  by pwthornton on 4/9/2019, 4:05 PM with 0 comments

• The Five Areas of UX

  by pwthornton on 4/8/2019, 1:48 PM with 0 comments

• Stop Creating Maximal Voluminous Products for Your ‘MVPs’

  by pwthornton on 2/28/2019, 8:11 PM with 1 comments

• Disability Rights Advocate Dies After Insurance Co. Denied Her Necessary Meds

  by pwthornton on 2/28/2019, 5:03 PM with 7 comments

• Samsung Galaxy Fold Is the Homer Simpson Car

  by pwthornton on 2/24/2019, 1:13 AM with 0 comments

• Why Amazon’s New York U-Turn Is Good for America’s Tech Economy

  by pwthornton on 2/15/2019, 3:18 PM with 0 comments

• A Minimal Viable Product Needs to Be Viable

  by pwthornton on 2/13/2019, 5:36 PM with 0 comments

• What is an affordance?

  by pwthornton on 2/10/2019, 7:10 PM with 0 comments

• How to determine if something is well designed

  by pwthornton on 2/4/2019, 2:50 PM with 0 comments

• Guidelines for thoughtful product design

  by pwthornton on 1/28/2019, 9:44 PM with 0 comments

• Ex-Apple engineers unveil a next-generation sensor for self-driving cars

  by pwthornton on 10/1/2018, 2:12 PM with 0 comments

• DC, Maryland, and Virginia shouldn’t compete over a new football stadium

  by pwthornton on 2/6/2018, 7:45 PM with 0 comments

• LaCroix Fizzy Water Is Everyone’s Favorite. Nobody Knows What’s in It

  by pwthornton on 9/14/2017, 4:22 PM with 0 comments

• Maryland Needs to Build Purple Line Quickly If It Has Any Hope of Landing Amazon

  by pwthornton on 9/14/2017, 2:21 PM with 0 comments

• Neuroscientists Have Figured Out Why You Can’t Concentrate at Work

  by pwthornton on 9/7/2017, 2:13 AM with 0 comments

• Gov's Gender Pay Case Against Google Is About Definition of Pay Discrimination

  by pwthornton on 4/8/2017, 10:05 PM with 0 comments

• Headlines Matter When Your President Lies All the Time

  by pwthornton on 1/30/2017, 10:45 PM with comments

• Trump/Russia dossier written by former head of MI6 Russia desk

  by pwthornton on 1/12/2017, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• Man celebrating vote to repeal Obamacare learns he is on Obamacare

  by pwthornton on 1/10/2017, 3:53 PM with comments

• Child Care Scarcity Has Very Real Consequences for Working Families

  by pwthornton on 1/4/2017, 4:23 PM with 0 comments

• The Internet Archive is building a Canadian copy to protect itself from Trump

  by pwthornton on 11/29/2016, 8:36 PM with 0 comments

• Rural Democrats: We Tried to Warn You

  by pwthornton on 11/29/2016, 7:26 PM with 3 comments

• White House made me a poster child for beating the odds. Then I dropped out

  by pwthornton on 5/31/2016, 7:45 PM with 0 comments

• DC has hundreds of traffic cameras, so someone made a feed to tweet out images

  by pwthornton on 2/18/2016, 5:56 PM with 0 comments

• How the Washington D.C. Metro got so bad

  by pwthornton on 12/14/2015, 10:04 PM with 86 comments

• Major step taken toward error-free computing

  by pwthornton on 4/23/2014, 5:33 PM with 0 comments

• Scientist: Babies cry at night to prevent conception of additional sibling

  by pwthornton on 4/23/2014, 12:42 PM with 2 comments

• This is what happens when you pee in the pool

  by pwthornton on 4/9/2014, 2:31 PM with 0 comments

• Science can save lives, but only if society lets it

  by pwthornton on 4/7/2014, 6:28 PM with 0 comments

• Apple CarPlay demo videos

  by pwthornton on 3/5/2014, 10:19 PM with 0 comments

• Microsoft should split Windows into two separate OSes

  by pwthornton on 2/28/2014, 7:16 PM with 1 comments

• Not a designer? You should paper prototype

  by pwthornton on 11/3/2013, 2:06 AM with 0 comments

• Unlocked phones are the way to go

  by pwthornton on 10/30/2013, 3:19 PM with 67 comments

• Why I am happy that I chose Flickr over Instagram for my photo project

  by pwthornton on 8/21/2013, 8:24 PM with 0 comments

• College-level Cobol classes are scarce

  by pwthornton on 4/22/2013, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• Generation Screwed

  by pwthornton on 4/4/2013, 3:49 AM with 0 comments

• Paying for great writing in the Internet Age

  by pwthornton on 3/7/2013, 7:57 PM with 0 comments

• Retina/HiDPI displays will reduce eyestrain and should lead to more reading

  by pwthornton on 1/14/2013, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• Apple Issues Statement Over Day 1 'Maps' Glitches

  by pwthornton on 9/20/2012, 11:53 PM with -1 comments

• Peter Jackson doing away with miniature for CGI on The Hobbit

  by pwthornton on 7/16/2012, 9:20 PM with 0 comments

• Primer on what the Higgs boson is, why it's important & how it was confirmed

  by pwthornton on 7/16/2012, 4:07 PM with 0 comments

• Alan Turing foresaw machines’ potential to mimic brains

  by pwthornton on 6/22/2012, 7:22 PM with 1 comments

• Game of Thrones looks terrible streaming over hotel wifi (HBO Go?)

  by pwthornton on 5/15/2012, 1:47 AM with 1 comments

• On science and sports

  by pwthornton on 5/14/2012, 2:14 PM with 0 comments

• Even Obama wants to cut Post Office delivery. What was Netflix supposed to do?

  by pwthornton on 9/21/2011, 3:30 PM with 0 comments

• Apple attempting to redefine Pro with FCPX

  by pwthornton on 7/11/2011, 5:52 PM with 0 comments

• Google+ needs to pass more than the geek test

  by pwthornton on 7/6/2011, 2:36 AM with 1 comments