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TECHNOLOGYMay 8 · 07:57 UTCHACKER NEWSmittermayr

Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

A UUID v4 collision occurred in a database with approximately 15,000 records, despite the extremely low statistical probability of such an event. The collision involved two identical UUIDs generated by the uuid package from npmjs.com. The incident is unexpected and statistically improbable.

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