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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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  1. …this spinning globe quine as art? https://github.com/knoxknox/qlobe or this 100 language quine https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/README.md
    comment by IanCal · 2017-03-20 · in An Apology for Roger Ebert (2011)
  2. It appears all the languages' code is encoded in the `code_gen.rb` file: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen... < VB https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen... < PHP
  3. Have you seen this one? It's insane: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by djsumdog · 2017-03-09 · in An animated GIF that shows its own MD5
  4. …a multi step quine that hashes to the same value at every stage! BTW quine relay is impressive: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by mrybczyn · 2017-02-24 · in Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
  5. Notably missing from the list: the 100-language quine. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by al2o3cr · 2017-02-15 · in Creepy Code Collection
  6. …programming languages (each producing an input for the next one) to finally produce its own code https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by joegreen · 2016-11-11 · in Regex that only matches itself
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    Mame/quine-relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languages
    story by pkaeding · 2016-09-14 · 0 comments
  8. …this, you may also like Quine Relay, a quine program that cycles through 100 different languages: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
  9. That was pretty much THE thing that won my respect for the Ruby community. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/thumbnail.pn... That and the radiation-hardened quine: https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine Prior to…
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    Quine Relay – creates programs that generate programs in the next language
    story by spullara · 2016-09-01 · 0 comments
  11. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/ This 100-language quine relay passes through both on its way around the clock. :)
  12. Phava is great! But, quine-relay still wins: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
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    Quine Relay (Ruby to Scala to Scheme to Ruby again)
    story by njaremko · 2016-08-31 · 0 comments
  14. Have you seen this? https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by nathancahill · 2016-06-30 · in Goa: Design-First API Generation
  15. I first learned about that language from this quine: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
  16. Hmm ... 100 langs circuit, impressive ... thumbnail of code ... %&$#!! https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/thumbnail.pn... (Attention to detail, they haz it.)
    comment by B1FF_PSUVM · 2016-05-22 · in Shebang Quine
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    Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languages
    story by jackgavigan · 2016-05-20 · 0 comments
  18. This one is also amazing. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by takeda · 2016-05-20 · in Shebang Quine
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    Quine-relay: an uroboros program with 100 programming languages
    story by ashitlerferad · 2016-05-03 · 0 comments
  20. …[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc#t=1h7m15s [4] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
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    Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languages
    story by ingve · 2015-12-16 · 0 comments
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    Quine Relay: uroboros program with 100 programming languages
    story by stargrave · 2015-09-22 · 0 comments
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    An uroboros program with 100 programming languages
    story by shawndumas · 2015-07-17 · 0 comments
  24. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay 100 language cyclic quine relay.
    comment by knotty66 · 2015-07-17 · in A fast Lisp interpreter in Dart
  25. FWIW the guy who made this also made that huge quine from a year or two ago: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by wetmore · 2015-03-06 · in ASCII fluid dynamics (2013) [video]
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    Quine-relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languages
    story by sanqui · 2015-01-31 · 0 comments
  27. …from us in this first calendar quarter. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfD3pC0VSs [2] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay [3] https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/554076708173643776 [4] https://github.com/joyent/sdc-docker
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    100th language in Quine Relay
    story by mquandalle · 2014-12-24 · 0 comments
  29. same author wrote a 50 language quine: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by yincrash · 2014-02-22 · in Radiation-hardened quine
  30. A quine perhaps? (Perhaps Endoh's crazy quine? https://github.com/mame/quine-relay )
    comment by chewxy · 2013-12-03 · in The Language-Language Matrix
  31. Posted here before I'm sure, but no discussion of this topic is complete without a link to https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by jgeorge · 2013-11-06 · in The Quine Page (self-reproducing code)
  32. I love his sense of humor too: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues/10
    comment by minikomi · 2013-07-17 · in Quine Relay
  33. Welcome to social coding: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues
    comment by isomorph · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  34. Fixed: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/commit/b9322a12e9598911f... The hashes are automatically generated, it turns out.
    comment by chalst · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  35. …and then reading about what it does afterwards was the idea. Amazing piece of work by @hirekoke. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb
    comment by codeulike · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  36. Woot! Pascal issue fixed in a later commit: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/commit/5d8c1e61a5012b9b5... (Replying to self because I can't further edit that comment.)
    comment by SilasX · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
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    Quine relay in 50 programming languages
    story by akkyakimoto · 2013-07-16 · 0 comments
  38. …to look like the Star of David surrounded by the dragon-eel thing, Obfuscated-C-contest style: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb
    comment by barbs · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  39. …of super impressive stuff here, but don't be intimidated thinking he wrote that monster by hand! https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen...
    comment by jcromartie · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  40. The miracle happens here: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen... Also the SVG to ASCII mapping is cool!
    comment by NanoWar · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  41. …which can be fixed either with a compiler switch or by editing the source earlier in the relay. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues/3
    comment by SilasX · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  42. …do). Hopefully you can see now how it's not so impossible (but still ridiculously awesome!) [1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb
    comment by shawnz · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
  43. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen... This is a neat project but somehow the implementation is a lot less mind bending than the definition. Which is rather the opposite of what I experienced when I first heard of…
    comment by recuter · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
  44. And: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb This project isn't code, it's art. Edit: Heh, Brainfuck, Whitespace, Logo... and notice they're all in alphabetical order?
    comment by polemic · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
  45. …yet another language. The process continues until the output is the code of the original file. [1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by SilasX · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
  46. Fascinating. Even the README generator is on another level of meta: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/README.m...
    comment by epidemian · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
  47. …author for taking dedication to a whole new level. Link to a description of what this actually is: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by RyanZAG · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
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    Quine Relay
    story by codeulike · 2013-07-15 · 177 comments
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    Quine-relay: An uroboros program with 50 programming languages
    story by nathell · 2013-07-15 · 2 comments