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YouTube announced updates to its Shorts recommendation system, aiming to favor original content over re-uploaded clips. Channels that mainly aggregate existing videos without adding new value are expected to see reduced visibility, encouraging creators to include commentary, edits, or storytelling. The platform has not specified whether this change will affect creators who clip their own longer videos for Shorts.
An Ask HN post asks whether anyone still relies on DOS-era software like dBase, Clipper, CLARION or Paradox, or industrial equipment controlled via ISA cards or parallel-port dongles, to run real business processes. The poster says they are researching an idea for keeping such systems running on modern hardware and invites people to share experiences via comments or email.
Waymo has launched a new incentive program with Visa that credits riders $2.85 toward future robotaxi trips when they use a Visa card to pay for both a Waymo ride and public transit within a two-hour window. The pilot starts in the San Francisco-Bay Area and builds on earlier standalone tests Waymo ran in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but this version relies on Visa's payment data to verify qualifying trips automatically.