Zint

andrewstuart · 2024-04-18T03:37:02

I literally could not see the content of the front page because it was wall to wall advertisements.

I presume the ad spammers spammed it onto the front page of HN to pump up the ad views.

throwaway2046 · 2024-04-18T10:02:03

You might prefer the GitHub repo: https://github.com/zint/zint

wakawaka28 · 2024-04-18T07:34:35

It looks like a legit open source project. Strange that you would see any ads on it. I see zero ads but I also have uBlock.

Edit: I just opened it with ads. Looks like a basic ad setup, but there are a few places where the ads are inserted on the page. Looks a bit excessive but maybe some of them are supposed to be smaller ads instead of big header ads like we see. It could be a typo in their template or something.

denkmoon · 2024-04-18T03:48:00

Why would anyone browse the internet without a blocker?

doublerabbit · 2024-04-18T21:47:08

Because my workstation for a $corp doesn't allow ad blockers?

denkmoon · 2024-04-18T23:46:08

Insane. Terrible security.

andrewstuart · 2024-04-18T22:41:18

I believe in advertising - it pays for much of the internet.

doublerabbit · 2024-04-18T21:49:30

An TCL equivalent & live-demo, at the TCL wiki: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/zint

tempaccount1234 · 2024-04-19T05:14:45

I used it a decade ago and it was fine. Now I need a proper dezint library for Python that reads all those barcodes from images…

pyinstallwoes · 2024-04-18T09:41:42

The Aztec Code is cool