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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…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) -
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
comment by nacs · 2017-03-09 · in An animated GIF that shows its own MD5 -
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 -
…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 -
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 -
…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 languagesstory by pkaeding · 2016-09-14 · 0 comments
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…this, you may also like Quine Relay, a quine program that cycles through 100 different languages: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by apeace · 2016-09-14 · in QuineDB – A quine that is also a key-value store -
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…
comment by terminado · 2016-09-01 · in Code that is valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both -
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Quine Relay – creates programs that generate programs in the next languagestory by spullara · 2016-09-01 · 0 comments
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https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/ This 100-language quine relay passes through both on its way around the clock. :)
comment by taneq · 2016-09-01 · in Code that is valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both -
Phava is great! But, quine-relay still wins: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by IANAD · 2016-09-01 · in Code that is valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both -
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Quine Relay (Ruby to Scala to Scheme to Ruby again)story by njaremko · 2016-08-31 · 0 comments
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Have you seen this? https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by nathancahill · 2016-06-30 · in Goa: Design-First API Generation -
I first learned about that language from this quine: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by djsumdog · 2016-06-16 · in Google praises 86-year-old for polite internet searches -
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 languagesstory by jackgavigan · 2016-05-20 · 0 comments
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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 languagesstory by ashitlerferad · 2016-05-03 · 0 comments
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…[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc#t=1h7m15s [4] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by bcantrill · 2016-03-30 · in Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 -
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Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by ingve · 2015-12-16 · 0 comments
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Quine Relay: uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by stargrave · 2015-09-22 · 0 comments
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An uroboros program with 100 programming languagesstory by shawndumas · 2015-07-17 · 0 comments
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https://github.com/mame/quine-relay 100 language cyclic quine relay.
comment by knotty66 · 2015-07-17 · in A fast Lisp interpreter in Dart -
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 languagesstory by sanqui · 2015-01-31 · 0 comments
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…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
comment by bcantrill · 2015-01-15 · in Show HN: Jetpack, a FreeBSD Jail/ZFS-based container runtime -
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100th language in Quine Relaystory by mquandalle · 2014-12-24 · 0 comments
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same author wrote a 50 language quine: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
comment by yincrash · 2014-02-22 · in Radiation-hardened quine -
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 -
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) -
I love his sense of humor too: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues/10
comment by minikomi · 2013-07-17 · in Quine Relay -
Welcome to social coding: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues
comment by isomorph · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay -
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 -
…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 -
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 languagesstory by akkyakimoto · 2013-07-16 · 0 comments
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…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 -
…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 -
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 -
…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 -
…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 -
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 -
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 -
…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 -
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 -
…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 Relaystory by codeulike · 2013-07-15 · 177 comments
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Quine-relay: An uroboros program with 50 programming languagesstory by nathell · 2013-07-15 · 2 comments