News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision.... Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... by amelius on Friday May 08, 2026 @05:27PM (#48068990)
You can already have a good entropy source from a single resistor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Nyquist_noise

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... by pyuser583 on Saturday May 09, 2026 @11:39AM (#48075832)
This is what gets me - entropy is hard, but not that hard. I get it goes against everything a computer is built to do, but so does telling time.
[ Parent | on HN ]