Show HN: Reverse Engineered Apple's Circular App Clip Codes

Category: library

Tags: reverse-engineering, apple, qr-codes, compression, typescript, go

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 9, Utility: 4)

This project reverse engineers Apple's proprietary App Clip Code format, providing open-source Go and TypeScript implementations that can generate, decode, and scan these circular codes. It's particularly interesting for its detailed technical write-up on Apple's compression schemes and its exploration of using LLMs for systematic reverse engineering under a test harness.

Target audience: backend devs, mobile devs

Repository: https://github.com/rs/appclipcode · TypeScript · MIT · 6 stars

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