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Scuba-Suit-Clad Thief Steals Thousands of Dollars From Floating Disney World Restaurant in Heist Ripped Right Out of the Movies

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-22 05:40:03

When we hear of criminal activity at Walt Disney World, it’s not usually pertaining to an action sequence that feels like it’s come right out of a Disney movie itself. But that was apparently the case this week in Orlando, when over $10,000 was stolen from a Disney World restaurant by a scuba-diving criminal mastermind. WFTV9 (via Cinemablend) reports that in the early hours of today, an unidentified man staged a robbery at the Paddlefish seafood restaurant in Disney Springs, a shopping and din

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Ghost kitchens are dying

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 13:25:26

Ghost Kitchens Are Dying. Here's the $15 Billion Lesson Every Restaurateur Must Learn. A ghost kitchen stripped away everything you think makes a restaurant a restaurant. No dining room. No servers. No storefront. No customers walking through the door. Just a kitchen. Four walls. Commercial equipment. And a phone that never stops ringing with delivery orders. Ghost kitchens exist only in the digital world. Customers find them on DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. They order through an app. Food

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When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-09-20 10:28:15

When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe? A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances. By: Richard Cytowic A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. My earliest lessons in observation came not from a laboratory but in the living room, with my father in his tuxedo and top hat. To everyone else, he was “Big Ed,” a larger-tha

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A Queasy Selling of the Family Heirlooms

news.ycombinator.com Jeannette Cooperman Holds A Degree In Philosophy 2025-10-03 04:55:31

The gentleman is kindly, matter-of-fact. He is not scared of a dead mother’s lightning bolts. I stand on the other side of the glass cabinet, shifting my weight from one foot to the other, nervous as a thief at a pawn shop. Not because I stole this sterling and silverplate, but because I inherited it. As a sacred trust, glowing with aspirations to fineness. My Irish great-grandmother paid for her passage to America by working as a maid for a wealthy family, and she memorized their lace-curtain

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Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-29 13:15:14

If you're trying to find out what a restaurant has to offer, you might look up its menu, or go to its Facebook page. Hell, you could call and ask. But that's all démodé. Why not query an AI chatbot, a piece of software notorious for inventing facts out of the tokenized ether of the internet, and treat its answer like the word of God? Here's why: because you'd annoy the hell out of the restaurant. Just ask the beleaguered owners of the Montana eatery Stefanina's Wentzville, who are begging thei

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I used Perplexity to make a restaurant reservation - now I'm wondering if Google is holding us back

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-27 15:30:17

Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images ZDNET's takeaways Perplexity's new feature lets you make a restaurant reservation straight through OpenTable. The feature uses OpenTable's system, so you don't have to trust the AI to do it for you. Instead of navigating between apps or tabs to find a restaurant and then book a table, Perplexity handles everything. Finding the perfect restaurant and making a reservation just got a whole lot easier thanks to a new feature in Perplexity. The chatbot (which ZDNET's

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Scientists Appear to Have Spotted an Unknown Planet in Nearest Star System to Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-28 08:31:19

It's not easy to uncover exoplanets, largely lightless objects that either lurk in the dark void of space or are blown out by the light of a nearby star. But astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope believe they've found a new one — and it's just four light years away. Using the James Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the team found strong clues of a mysterious gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, the nearest star system to Earth. Tantalizingly, the suspected world appears to be o

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If This Planet Is Real, It Would Break So Many Records

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-29 08:05:23

Exoplanet hunters have had an eye on Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth at just four light-years away, for decades. We know that it consists of two Sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, as well as a faint red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri. But while researchers have previously discovered three exoplanets orbiting Proxima Centauri, the search for more worlds orbiting the system’s other two stars has proven difficult. Until now: New evidence from the James Webb Space

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I tried Perplexity's new reservation feature, and it surprised me with new dining spots to try

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-01 22:30:25

Thomas Barwick/Getty Images ZDNET's takeaways Perplexity's new feature lets you make a restaurant reservation straight through OpenTable. The feature uses OpenTable's system, so you don't have to trust the AI to do it for you. Instead of navigating between apps or tabs to find a restaurant and then book a table, Perplexity handles everything. Finding the perfect restaurant and making a reservation just got a whole lot easier thanks to a new feature in Perplexity. The chatbot (which ZDNET's

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“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

news.ycombinator.com Eyal Press 2025-12-10 17:47:27

In 2021, an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour and phase out the subminimum wage for tipped workers was attached to President Joe Biden’s pandemic-relief package. But the Senate parliamentarian removed the proposal from the bill, on procedural grounds. Bernie Sanders, then the Budget Committee chairman, forced a vote on the bill anyway, with the provision included. This decision sparked a furor among supposedly liberal lawmakers, according to Ari Rabin-Havt, S

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Warframe's The Old Peace Expansion Revealed: A Perilous Trip to Tau Unfolds Soon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 15:00:00

Warframe's last few updates have been a narrative tour de force through time and space, weaving together disparate threads from the far-flung past of the year 1999 and the fairytale void-dimension of Duviri. Core to these expansions is the conflict with the Eldritch threat known only as the Indifference. As it comes closer to piercing the veil of our reality and escaping the void, it's up to the Tenno to navigate lost memories -- rediscovering forgotten allies, a peace that was doomed to fail a

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Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable

news.ycombinator.com Nico Madrigal-Yankowski 2026-01-18 02:30:29

In the Emmy-winning FX show “The Bear,” which returned for a fourth season on June 25, there’s a pivotal Season 2 episode when Richie, aka Cousin, learns what it takes to work at a fine dining restaurant — and just how much intimate research goes into preparing for guests. Before his first night on the floor of the fictional three-Michelin-star restaurant, the front of house team goes over the evening’s PNOs — persons of note. Guests for the night include the district attorney for Chicago as we

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Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-18 08:23:37

While reading the latest results from Prosus, I realized there seems to be a trend that nobody is talking about. There is an obvious wave of consolidation in the food delivery market happening right before our eyes. The once-hot food delivery sector has gone cold faster than your DoorDash order. New entrants have disappeared as most of the VC money chases the cool and hip AI startups. Alongside a wave of acquisitions, the world's food delivery market is consolidating in the hands of 5 companies.

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How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mind

technologyreview.com Grace Huckins 2026-01-29 06:30:00

Compared with conventional psychological models, which use simple math equations, Centaur did a far better job of predicting behavior. Accurate predictions of how humans respond in psychology experiments are valuable in and of themselves: For example, scientists could use Centaur to pilot their experiments on a computer before recruiting, and paying, human participants. In their paper, however, the researchers propose that Centaur could be more than just a prediction machine. By interrogating th

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Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 06:58:53

Piano Trainer Learn to play the piano at your own pace through various modes of practice. Watch the video Features MIDI compatible Home row keyboard input MIDI compatible Cross-platform support Cross-platform support Interactive scale practice Interactive scale practice Interactive chord practice Interactive chord practice Interactive fifths practice Interactive fifths practice Interactive quiz Interactive quiz Hard mode Hard mode Shuffle mode Coming Soon More scales More scales Set

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Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant with Data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-04 22:15:56

Last summer, I wrote about the statistically improbable restaurant, the restaurant you wouldn’t expect to find in a small American city: the excellent Nepali food in Erie, PA and Akron, OH; a gem of a Gambian restaurant in Springfield, IL. Statistically improbable restaurants often tell you something about the communities they are based in: Erie and Akron have large Lhotshampa refugee populations, Nepali-speaking people who lived in Bhutan for years before being expelled from their county; Sprin

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The rise of the surveillance state in three book reviews

technologyreview.com Bryan Gardiner 2026-02-22 14:00:00

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State Byron Tau CROWN, 2024 Midway through his book, Tau, an investigative journalist, recalls meeting with a disgruntled former employee of a data broker—a shady company that collects, bundles, and sells your personal data to other (often shadier) third parties, including the government. This ex-employee had managed to make off with several gigabytes of location data representing the preci

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Newborns have elevated levels of a biomarker for Alzheimer's

news.ycombinator.com University Of Gothenburg 2026-02-24 22:30:37

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Brain Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaf221 Newborn babies and patients with Alzheimer's disease share an unexpected biological trait: elevated levels of a well-known biomarker for Alzheimer's, as shown in a study led by researchers at the University of Gothenburg and published in Brain Comm

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Book review: Surveillance & privacy

technologyreview.com Bryan Gardiner 2026-02-28 08:00:00

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State Byron Tau CROWN, 2024 Midway through his book, Tau, an investigative journalist, recalls meeting with a disgruntled former employee of a data broker—a shady company that collects, bundles, and sells your personal data to other (often shadier) third parties, including the government. This ex-employee had managed to make off with several gigabytes of location data representing the preci

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Alpha Centauri

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2026-02-28 12:50:14

This article tells part of the story of the Civilization series. In the spring of 1996, Brian Reynolds and Jeff Briggs took a long, hard look around them and decided that they’d rather be somewhere else. At that time, the two men were working for MicroProse Software, for whom they had just completed Civilization II, with Reynolds in the role of primary designer and programmer and Briggs in that of co-designer, producer, and soundtrack composer. They had brought the project in for well under $1

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Latest Tech News

Scuba-Suit-Clad Thief Steals Thousands of Dollars From Floating Disney World Restaurant in Heist Ripped Right Out of the Movies

Ghost kitchens are dying

When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?

A Queasy Selling of the Family Heirlooms

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist

I used Perplexity to make a restaurant reservation - now I'm wondering if Google is holding us back

Scientists Appear to Have Spotted an Unknown Planet in Nearest Star System to Earth

If This Planet Is Real, It Would Break So Many Records

I tried Perplexity's new reservation feature, and it surprised me with new dining spots to try

“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

Warframe's The Old Peace Expansion Revealed: A Perilous Trip to Tau Unfolds Soon

Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable

Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market

How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mind

Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI

Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant with Data

The rise of the surveillance state in three book reviews

Newborns have elevated levels of a biomarker for Alzheimer's

Book review: Surveillance & privacy

Alpha Centauri

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