[HN Gopher] Game of Life oscillator running on tweets
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       Game of Life oscillator running on tweets
        
       Author : pomber
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2021-03-26 14:38 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | nocobot wrote:
       | the second link already seems to be broken
        
       | spicybright wrote:
       | Is this some kind of code, or just ascii art tweets with links
       | that loop?
        
         | grenoire wrote:
         | Latter.
        
       | e2021 wrote:
       | I don't get it, it's just a tweet with ascii art for GoL?
        
         | tape_measure wrote:
         | The difficulty is linking two tweets to each other. You don't
         | know the url of a tweet when posting, but there are patterns in
         | how the ID is assigned and it's possible to tweet likely
         | guesses until you have success.
        
         | beaconstudios wrote:
         | The tweet contains the first phase of a 2-periodic oscillator.
         | It links to a tweet of the second phase, which links back to
         | the first tweet.
         | 
         | It's 2 mutually recursive tweets.
        
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