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

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I know what you’re thinking… and I still can’t believe it, but… This morning, our database flagged a duplicate UUID (v4). I checked, thinking it may have been a double-insert bug or something, but no. The original UUID was from a record added in 2025 (about a year ago), and today the system inserted a […]

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