ulid/spec
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The canonical spec for ulid
70 mentions on Hacker News by 63 people: 12 stories, 58 comments · first 2018-09-01 · latest 2026-10-24
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I've been using ULID as an alternative to UUIDs, e.g.: https://github.com/ulid/spec I've found ULID to be great for my purposes. Wonder if anyone else has tried using them too?
comment by fatsdomino001 · 2020-12-04 · in Pg-shortkey: YouTube-Like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys -
…where a more guarantee of uniqueness is needed. (ie, bajillion records a second unique...) [0] https://github.com/ulid/spec
comment by Vanderson · 2020-09-30 · in Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated -
…input. And, like this spec, the values are aliases so 0/o are the same, 1/I/l are the same, etc https://github.com/ulid/spec
comment by edoceo · 2020-09-07 · in Show HN: Base32H, a human-friendly duotrigesimal number system -
…to secure both) and multiple storage systems in play, but I haven't found a better approach. [1] https://github.com/ulid/spec [2] https://blurha.sh/
comment by WorldMaker · 2020-02-27 · in CouchDB 3.0 -
ULID - https://github.com/ulid/spec it's like 48bits of control and 80 bits of power packed into 128bits of fun!!
comment by edoceo · 2019-11-21 · in An interview on what makes Postgres unique: extensions -
or ulid? https://github.com/ulid/spec
comment by notduncansmith · 2019-08-08 · in Show HN: Short unique ordered ID generator[Python] -
…the high-bits including a timestamp. This turns inserts into, approximately, appends. Much nicer! https://github.com/ulid/spec is fairly recent, but the 'trick' has been used for years. I've build gazillion-row databases where all the data…
comment by willvarfar · 2019-04-30 · in How many ways are there to sort GUIDs? -
…Luckily it looks like the author has already written up his thoughts on the differences[2]. [1] https://github.com/ulid/spec [2] https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid/issues/8
comment by thanatos_dem · 2019-02-03 · in A brief history of the UUID (2017)