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Face as a QR Code

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/12/your-face-as-qr-code.html
13•surprisetalk•3d ago

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wernsey•1h ago
The blog just leads to https://research.swtch.com/qr/draw/, which is the demo page of the blogs [1] and [2] written by Russ Cox many years ago about putting pictures in QR codes by manipulating the error correction codes in them

[1]: https://research.swtch.com/qart [2] https://research.swtch.com/field

madethemcry•59m ago
Hey thanks a lot, that should be the actual link behind the submission. Very interesting technique that boils down to encode a url with a ton of carefully shaped random numbers hidden in the fragment to generate the actual art.

That's the example url from the linked blog introducing this technique http://swtch.com/pjw/#123456789...

Source Code (Go) is here: https://github.com/rsc/qr/tree/master/qart

isoprophlex•25m ago
Does this mean you could make a gif which is a valid QR code playing Bad Apple?

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124•dbushell•1h ago•44 comments

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43•madjam002•47m ago•33 comments

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57•ploum•1h ago•26 comments

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413•WorldPeas•12h ago•146 comments

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188•brogu•9h ago•34 comments

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27•thm•58m ago•9 comments

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355•linolevan•15h ago•126 comments

Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

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364•ksec•16h ago•282 comments

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40•gaul•5h ago•8 comments

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147•Scramblejams•11h ago•106 comments

Scaling long-running autonomous coding

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94•srameshc•8h ago•31 comments

The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs

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137•long•1d ago•98 comments

Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

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62•dnmc•5h ago•6 comments

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

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184•dsr12•14h ago•102 comments

Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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232•celsoazevedo•7h ago•96 comments

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54•kurinikku•9h ago•6 comments

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20•bananaboy•4d ago•0 comments

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79•wglb•4d ago•70 comments

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286•m463•8h ago•329 comments

Face as a QR Code

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/12/your-face-as-qr-code.html
13•surprisetalk•3d ago•3 comments

I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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104•SilenN•1d ago•165 comments

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45•zdw•5d ago•18 comments

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90•mfiguiere•11h ago•13 comments

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Legal Structures for Latin American Startups (2021)

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26•walterbell•7h ago•6 comments

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69•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments