#quines
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #quines from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-14 04:47 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-14 04:47 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 04:47 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 11 public posts (spanning ~80536 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (11)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
P.P.S. Is this The Heart of Homoiconicity™? A rare warranted use of `eval' (Elisp): (let ((q '((lambda (x) (list x x)) (lambda (x) (list x x))))) (equal q (eval q))) => t after (setq lexical-binding nil) as needed. #Elisp #EmacsLisp #Homoic
@dubiousdisc wrote: «The killer feature of Lisps is not macros or structural editing (though those are nice too). The killer feature is REPL-driven development. Writing and testing code are not separate stages; they are intertwined. It's a
By definition, a quine has no normal form [late correction]. For a well-known example, a _single_ β-reduction of the (reducible) term (λx.xx)(λx.xx) yields itself. Thus giving ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) to Scheme doesn't termin
What “quines” means
WikipediaA quine is a computer program that takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. The standard terms for these programs in the computability theory and computer science literature are "self-replicating programs", "self-reproducing programs", and "self-copying programs".
“Quine (computing)” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#quines across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #quines straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/quines