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Generate RFC-compliant UUIDs in JavaScript

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2020-12-04 · latest 2026-05-08

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  1. …> - Check for duplicate UUIDs, fail gracefully > - Disable write operations for Googlebot clients https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/commit/91805f665c38b691ac2cbd...
    comment by sedatk · 2026-05-08 · in Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
  2. Googlebot's lack of randomness was the conclusion of a previous incident for that package https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/issues/546
    comment by adzm · 2026-05-08 · in Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
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    NPM UUID's random number gen contains shared mutable state bug since 3 weeks
    story by jbverschoor · 2026-05-08 · 2 comments
  4. https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/blob/e1f42a354593093ba0479f0b... became https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/blob/f2c235f93059325fa43e1106... Welp.. time to patch and update everything again. Another day, another npm-package headache. Very odd()…
    comment by jbverschoor · 2026-05-08 · in Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
  5. Some discussion here: https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/issues/546 Eg: > FWIW, I just tested crypto.getRandomValues() behavior on googlebot and it is also deterministic(!)
    comment by e12e · 2026-05-08 · in Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
  6. …involved with using them: - https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/sequential-uuid-generato... - https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/issues/303 (also mentioned: https://gist.github.com/1ma/c837e6f30c0869cfc1222f67ac8b1c52 ) I personally use v1…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2020-12-04 · in Pg-shortkey: YouTube-Like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys