14 points by foodevl 3 days ago|4 comments
In the "Libre Barcode Project" discussion yesterday, 1bpp asked: "Is anyone willing to sacrifice their sanity for the sake of implementing a QR renderer as TTF hinting code?"

Yes. I had some tokens to burn and was curious... turns out, it's possible. This was put together by a mix of Gemini, GPT, and Claude (depending on which usage limits kept running out).

WenboS 2 days ago
This is absolute black magic. I never realized OpenType rules were powerful enough to render something as complex as a QR matrix inline.
foodevl 3 days ago
1bpp's comment suggesting this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682460
bigboss2700 2 days ago
That's a wonderfully cursed idea.
1bpp 18 hours ago
This is terrifying, great job!