Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Yep - I've seen legitimate-looking dups on bad hardware, and "there are a ton of trailing zeros" is also an incredibly common duplicate mode for some UUID libraries (like earlier Go ones that didn't validate the "requested N bytes, returned 3, you must re-request to get N-3 more" return values. it doesn't happen on most hardware or OSes, so people never check it, so it just comes up in production some day with tens of thousands of collisions).


Consider applying for YC's Fall 2026 batch! Applications are open till July 27.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: