What does HackerNews think of radiation-hardened-quine?

I like the Radiation-hardened Quine: https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine

Quines are fun! My favorite generalization is the quine relay: "This is a Ruby program that generates Rust program that generates Scala program that generates ...(through 128 languages in total)... REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again." https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

The same author also has a radiation-hardened quine, which still emits the original quine even if you delete any(!) one character before running it: https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine

But coming back to traditional quines; the most common solution is of the form:

> The following string followed by itself in quotes: "The following string followed by itself in quotes: "

This is by no means the only possible solution: If you view the compiler/interpreter as a function then a quine is the fixpoint of that function.

So, if your "compiler" is `cat`, the shell identity function, then any string is a quine! A fork bomb is also a kind of quine. The quine there is not the code itself, but a process running the code. That process is "interpreted" by the kernel, which dutifully creates an exact copy of the fork-bomb process.

I've never sat down and tried it, but one day I want to write a quine of the form: "Initialize a PRNG with this seed and print the first n bytes". Probably there's a language which lets you get the required code small enough that you could brute-force the correct seed.

On a more trivial note, this reminds me of the radiation-hardened quine: https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine

Would be amazing if the method used for implementing it could be generalised somehow.