9.7M views · Sep 30, 2024 · 35:13 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2024–2025
Veritasium builds a QR code by hand to explain how it works. It covers the history of Morse code and barcodes, how QR codes encode data, why damaged codes still scan, and how safe they are.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN points to it as a recent, well-made explanation of QR code structure and error correction.
“Derek Muller just did an interesting take on QR codes and their history”HN comment, 2024
“Derek Muller just did an interesting take on QR codes and their history”
Interesting take on QR codes and their history
Derek Muller just did an interesting take on QR codes and their history on his popular channel veritasium: this video
“Recent Veritasium video on the topic”
Recent Veritasium video on QR codes
Recent Veritasium video on the topic, "I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius": * this video
“Here's a Veritasium video on QR codes”
QR code degradation tolerance
Yep, if I'm using a physical medium like paper I want to allow for some degradation. Here's a Veritasium video on QR codes: this video
