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mamememo is a personal blog at mamememo.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Rotating Quine”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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16mentions?
15HN people?
2010–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Yusuke Endoh's blog for its quine programs, including the Qlobe spinning-globe ASCII quine, a Piet quine and Merry Quine-mas 2010, plus posts on the history of the pipeline operator.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Ruby, Quine, esoteric languages, and what not

Most-linked posts?

  1. Rotating Quine
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-09-06
  2. Clever... not quite god like, but close.
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-20
  3. CPU-intensive Ruby/Python code runs slower on default-configured Docker
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-29
  4. Merry Quine-mas
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. omoikane · 2020-10-19
    See also: https://mametter.hatenablog.com/entry/20100905/p1 http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/09/qlobe.html

    Comment linking /2010/09/qlobe.html

    on “This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine”
  2. anathem · 2010-09-06

    Submitted Rotating Quine as a story · 116 points

    HN discussion
  3. aprescott · 2013-09-16
    He also made Merry Quine-mas 2010: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/12/merry-quine-mas-2010.ht...

    Comment linking /2010/12/merry-quine-mas-2010.html

    on “World”
  4. chucknthem · 2010-12-25

    Submitted Merry Quine-mas as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  5. OscarCunningham · 2024-04-24
    This person made a quine in Piet: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2009/10/piet-quine.html?m=1 . The image there is broken, but there's a copy here: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/23255/103045 .

    Comment linking /2009/10/piet-quine.html?m=1

    on “Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002)”
  6. fla · 2014-08-18

    Submitted The Qlobe (2010) as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. sixstringtheory · 2022-10-06Recommends
    Wow, that was cool, never found that one when I went on a deep dive after discovering their quine relay. The other amazing ASCII program of theirs that I love is the Qlobe: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/09/qlobe.html?m=1

    Comment linking /2010/09/qlobe.html?m=1

    on “A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop”
  8. Levi · 2011-09-05

    Submitted Clever... not quite god like, but close. as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. omoikane · 2022-02-04
    Feature request for pipeline operator in Ruby: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15799 See also: https://mamememo.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-brief-history-of-pip... https://mametter.hatenablog.com/entry/2019/06/15/192311

    Comment linking /2019/06/a-brief-history-of-pipeline-operator.html

    on “Rails is not written in Ruby”
  10. lostmsu · 2020-05-29

    Submitted CPU-intensive Ruby/Python code runs slower on default-configured Docker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Zababa · 2021-10-16
    Small fact about Isabelle: that's where the pipeline operator |> comes from. Here's a post about it with a few sources: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-brief-history-of-pipe... "also" isn't an excellent name for it, but I like the idea of giving names to operators instead of using things like >>=, <$>, <*>. I have a hard time reading code with it, as I always pause to think "okay, how should I read that?". I…

    Comment linking /2019/06/a-brief-history-of-pipeline-operator.html

    on “Functional Algorithms, Verified”
  12. m3mb3r · 2010-12-20

    Submitted Mamememo: The Qlobe as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. h4n · 2010-09-07Recommends
    Check out Endoh's fantastic Rubykaigi presentation: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/08/rubykaigi-2010.html . He shows, among other things, ASCII-art quines with background music, and a hello world program in Ruby with only underscores.

    Comment linking /2010/08/rubykaigi-2010.html

    on “Rotating Quine”
  14. stock_toaster · 2022-02-06
    There have been issues[1] with seccomp. Maybe try with seccomp disabled for that container? --security-opt seccomp:unconfined More info here[2]. [1]: https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/738 [2]: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2020/05/cpu-intensive-rubypytho...

    Comment linking /2020/05/cpu-intensive-rubypython-code-runs.html

    on “Java BitSet performance-flicker mystery”
  15. nthitz · 2012-10-25
    http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2009/10/piet-quine.html unfortunately not very aesthetically pleasing. More from the author here: http://yusuke.endoh.usesthis.com/

    Comment linking /2009/10/piet-quine.html

    on “Enterprise Piet”
  16. gommm · 2010-12-20
    His translated version of the article http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/09/qlobe.html (not that there is much to read :-) ) It's really impressive :-)

    Comment linking /2010/09/qlobe.html

    on “A crazy Ruby quine: a spinning globe.”

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