<story><title>10 &gt; 64, in QR Codes</title><url>https://huonw.github.io/blog/2024/03/qr-base10-base64/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pimlottc</author><text>This is really great, I didn&amp;#x27;t know you could switch encoding schemes within the same QR code.  There&amp;#x27;s a nifty visualization tool [0] that shows how this can reduce QR code sizes. It can determine the optimal segmentation strategy for any string and display a color-code version with statistics.  Very nice!&lt;p&gt;0: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nayuki.io&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;optimal-text-segmentation-for-qr-codes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nayuki.io&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;optimal-text-segmentation-for-qr-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>10 &gt; 64, in QR Codes</title><url>https://huonw.github.io/blog/2024/03/qr-base10-base64/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>komlan</author><text>This is particularly useful for numeric data that is usually displayed in hex, like UUIDs [1]&lt;p&gt;I used this for digital QR code tickets [2], and it made the codes so much easier to scan, even with bad lighting.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39094251&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39094251&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;workspace.google.com&amp;#x2F;marketplace&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;qr_code_ticket_per_row_for_event_attenda&amp;#x2F;9398047938&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;workspace.google.com&amp;#x2F;marketplace&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;qr_code_ticket_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>