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qrcodejs
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davidshimjs / qrcodejs

qrcodejs

Cross-browser QRCode generator for javascript

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
14.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

Cross-browser QRCode generator for javascript

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-09-29 15:49:37 UTC to 2025-06-26 20:02:09 UTC.

0122021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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> Knowing qrious exists and how to integrate it into a page: expensive. qrious literally has it integrated already: https://github.com/davidshimjs/qrcodejs/blob/master/index.ht... I see many issues. The main one is that none of this is relevant to the qemu discussion. It's on another whole level of project. I kind of regret asking the poor guy to show his stuff. None of these tutorial projects come even close to what an AI contribution to qemu would look like. It's pointless.
In Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators
> The LLM work sounds dumb, and the suggestion that it made "a qr code generator" is disingenuous. The LLM barely did a frontend for it. Barely. Yes, and? The goal wasn't "write me a QR library" it was "here's my pain point, solve it". > It sounds like the author payed for `npm install`, and thinks he's on top of things and being smart. I can put this another way if you prefer: Running `npm install qrious`: trivial. Knowing qrious exists and how to integrate it into a page: expensive. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/know-where-man/ > > Built with Aider and either Sonnet 3.5 or Gemini 2.5 Pro > Paid tools. I get Sonnet 4 for free at https://claude.ai — I know version numbers are weird in this domain, but I kinda expect that means Sonnet 3.5 was free at some point? Was it not? I mean, 3.7 is also a smaller version number but listed a
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s "pro", so IDK… Also I get Gemini 2.5 Pro for free at https://aistudio.google.com Just out of curiosity, I've just tried using Gemini 2.5 Pro (for free) myself to try this. The result points to a CDN of qrcodejs, which I assume is this, but don't know my JS libraries so can't confirm this isn't just two different ones with the same name: https://github.com/davidshimjs/qrcodejs My biggest issue with this kind of thing in coding is the same as my problem with libraries in general: you're responsible for the result even if you don't read what the library (/AI) is doing. So, I expect some future equivalent of the npm left-pad incident — memetic monoculture, lots of things fail at the same time.
In Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

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