News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs. Parent comment

Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by bumbledraven on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:13PM (#36515895)
Checksums facilitate error detection. For typed UUIDs, checksums help detect errors introduced by changing the prefix/type or changing a “digit”.
[ Parent | on HN ]

There are no comments on this comment yet.