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Comment by ilyagr | Hacker News Reader

Yeah. I wish the article talked about "the most boring nonempty quine".

Probably anyone reading this thread knows about this already :-) but that's like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

Maybe the empty quine is not boring by virtue of the fact it's not like all of the other quines.

2 is the odd prime for the same reason.

a non-empty quine in python would be `"hello world"`

Just writing a string in a python doesn’t output that string to stdout

yes it does

     $ ~ echo '"Hello world"' > quine.py
     $ ~ cat quine.py
     "Hello world"
     $ ~ python quine.py
     $ ~