mame/quine-relay
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An uroboros program with 100+ programming languages
99 mentions on Hacker News by 93 people: 31 stories, 68 comments · first 2013-07-15 · latest 2026-08-07
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…Another awe-inspiring quine of his, from about a decade ago, is the 128-language ouroboros quine: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by chao- · 2026-08-07 · in A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video] -
…his book "Gödel, Escher, Bach"). Probably most interesting to the people here is the quine relay: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay ("a Ruby program that generates a Rust program that generates a Scala program that generates ...(through…
comment by Zinu · 2026-07-21 · in Shorter is longer than longer [video] -
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An uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by modinfo · 2026-07-18 · 0 comments
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A Ruby program that generates a Rust program that generates a Scala program...story by bundie · 2026-04-10 · 0 comments
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https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by dheera · 2026-04-02 · in The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode -
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Hello World in Rubystory by octocop · 2025-05-20 · 0 comments
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Or this, the uroboros quine. Which I think is for sure art. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by adamgordonbell · 2024-11-13 · in A Mathematician in a School of Art -
You can chain 128 quines: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by f1shy · 2024-09-09 · in A tiny self-remaking C program -
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Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by HellsMaddy · 2024-03-24 · 0 comments
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Quine Relay – An uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by system32_eth · 2023-11-06 · 2 comments
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…but an incredibly robust system for escaping strings in 128 wildly different languages. [1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen...
comment by BoppreH · 2023-06-02 · in Radiation-hardened Quine (2014) -
…next one, looping all the way to the original one. In alphabetical order and as ASCII art, no less. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by purkka · 2023-06-02 · in Radiation-hardened Quine (2014) -
…in brainfuck are impressive but don't come nearly as close to black magic as quine-relay. [1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by fouronnes3 · 2023-01-15 · in 30 years of Brainfuck -
…...(through 128 languages in total)... REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again." https://github.com/mame/quine-relay (HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6048761 )
comment by tfehring · 2022-10-31 · in Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it? -
…https://mobile.twitter.com/David3141593/status/1368957384471... http://aem1k.com/world/ https://github.com/mame/quine-relay https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24824977 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4326164…
comment by notRobot · 2022-10-27 · in Time.gif (2017) -
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Ask HN: How is the code from the IOCCC contest submissions shaped / indented?story by develatio · 2022-10-08 · 1 comment
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This issue imploring Yusuke Endoh to write a paper about it is amusing: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues/10 > p-e-w: > This is more than a cool program – it's a computer science breakthrough! Apparently, you have discovered a…
comment by faitswulff · 2022-10-06 · in A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop -
The top of the repo explains it: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by viraptor · 2022-10-06 · in A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop -
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A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loopstory by sirnicolaz · 2022-10-06 · 56 comments
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An uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by rvnx · 2022-05-28 · 11 comments
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…...(through 128 languages in total)... REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by AMICABoard · 2022-05-23 · in Feather Wiki: app for creating personal non-linear notebooks, databases, wikis -
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Quine Relay: 100-language ouroboros quinestory by thesephist · 2022-05-08 · 0 comments
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Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by kinduff · 2022-03-06 · 0 comments
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The most amazing multi-quine I've seen is the quine relay here: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay It goes through 128 programming languages to regen its starting point.
comment by dwheeler · 2022-01-11 · in Quines (Self-Replicating Programs) -
How does one do something like this https://github.com/mame/quine-relay Does anyone know the core concept?
comment by tmd83 · 2022-01-11 · in Awesome Self-Reference -
The quine (through 128 languages in total): https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by Val_ · 2022-01-11 · in The Classic C Quine (2003) -
…people in Actually Interesting Positions. For example, you might've heard of the Oroboros Quine ( https://github.com/mame/quine-relay ), a program that emits source code in over 128 programming languages in successive steps (as you run…
comment by exikyut · 2022-01-05 · in Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer -
…famous for quine-relay [1] but has lots of other interesting art code projects in their repos. [1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by mythz · 2021-11-10 · in A no-go fantasy: writing Go in Ruby with Ruby Next -
That's a quine https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by Val_ · 2021-09-01 · in A Quine Made with Love -
…to do with the brutal winner-take-all nature of that space than any failure of the technology. [1]: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by mwcampbell · 2021-08-31 · in RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia -
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Quine Relaystory by _zhqs · 2020-11-07 · 13 comments
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Quine Relaystory by bane · 2020-10-27 · 0 comments
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….stackexchange.com/questions/102370/add-a-la... Edit: also, Yusuke Endoh is a master at this art form https://github.com/mame/quine-relay and has even written a book about it http://uguu.org/words/2015_10_01.html which I would still love…
comment by schoen · 2020-08-24 · in αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε -
…apparent to a programmer examining its structure. [1] https://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm [2] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay [3] http://www.tessellations.org/eschergallery2.shtml
comment by mopierotti · 2020-08-01 · in Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years” -
…issue at heart. Yusuke Endoh created a tantalizing Ouroboros quine cycling through 128 languages: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by IngoBlechschmid · 2020-06-13 · in Bertrand Russell’s infinite sock drawer -
You'd almost have a quine relay: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by kevinmgranger · 2020-04-09 · in Scheme.forth.jl: Scheme in Forth in Julia -
https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by shoeffner · 2020-02-06 · in Writing a triple polyglot script -
I always remember that https://github.com/mame/quine-relay https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mame/quine-relay/master/QR...
comment by jrimbault · 2020-01-25 · in Writing a Polyglot Script -
This is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen: a 128 language quine replay. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by nordsieck · 2019-12-28 · in RosettaGit: Same projects in many programming languages -
Not exactly what you're looking for, but: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by klyrs · 2019-11-30 · in Mal – Make a Lisp, implemented in 79 languages -
…of other languages, have the flexible formatting that allows for unreadable code. Ruby, anyone? https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb > As for the reasons for this - I've honestly no idea at all. Bad formatting is a bug…
comment by kazinator · 2019-05-18 · in TXR – A Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging -
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Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by dmitriid · 2019-05-08 · 4 comments
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An uroboros program with 100+ programming languagesstory by warent · 2019-01-06 · 0 comments
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Quine Relay (a program in 100+ programming languages)story by tosh · 2018-09-23 · 0 comments
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Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100+ programming languagesstory by axelfontaine · 2018-07-04 · 0 comments
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The ultimate: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by Intermernet · 2018-06-27 · in Quines and Multi-Quines (2005) -
…a remarkably impressive piece of engineering. I put that up there with some really hairy quines ( https://github.com/mame/quine-relay ), except it can actually be useful !
comment by zbentley · 2018-02-19 · in OneLang – A tool to help writing code in multiple languages at the same time -
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Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by chirau · 2017-08-16 · 0 comments
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An uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by federicoponzi · 2017-08-10 · 0 comments