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Re:Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... by Groxx on Friday May 08, 2026 @03:59PM (#48067967)
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).

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