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I'd like to announce my new `npm` package called `get-uuid`. Behind the scenes, it loads `everyuuid.com`, picks a random row number, and returns that UUID.
The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained. For the curious, here's the linked blog post describing how the project works: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/ Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even mo…
Yeah, I at first, I though I knew exactly how it worked. Then I saw the search field, and I suddenly had no idea what the hell was going on. Now, the big question, do I want to spoil the magic trick and read how this was done, or should I keep being astonished and flabbergasted?
The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained. For the curious, here's the linked blog post describing how the project works: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/ Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even mo…
Awesome - this will be my new coding interview question
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I'm really happy that the trick was magical to you - I was so surprised and delighted when I realized that this was possible, and I wasn't really sure if anyone else would feel the same way! And of course, I'm proud to be providing so much utility here - finally we can find and use UUIDs tailor-fit to our needs
Memorable UUIDs? I think you're on to something here! (Also, dibs on 00000000-0000-4321-abcd-000000000001!)
Hey, one of my database passwords is in here. How the heck did you get access to it???????? Who do I contact about this breach? I want names and addresses.
The name and address is at everyUTF8string.com. You might have to scroll a while, though...
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It’s an interesting question whether that could be fixed. I think the answer is Yes. If the author didn’t do any scrambling, and just displayed UUIDs in numeric order, then it’s trivial to enumerate search results in order. Likewise, if you do something like adding a constant mod 16 to each hex digit, you could do the same thing when you generate UUIDs matching a substring. So the question becomes whether you could f…
FWIW I am super interested in this question but feel like I don't know how to derive a satisfying answer, maybe because the one of my goals here (add "enough" entropy) is a real fuzzy "I know it when I see it" sort of thing. But I'm gonna try to get a few more crypto-knowledgeable friends to chat with me about this and write up what I learn!
Tangentially related: HN recently (last few months) had an article explaining how large a number was. The number was something like busy beaver or 128 bit integers or something else. It illustrated how large the number was by creating activities you would do, incrementing the counter as you did them. The sequence went something like this: Walk, and every time you take a step. Add 1 After you have circled the earth, p…
Wow, it's a website which has more than a screen-full of stuff on it at one time and scrolling doesn't introduce a seconds-long loading animation. I wonder if modern web developers of modern web applications could somehow harness this technology.
It's ludicrous how our computer hardware is 1000x faster than it was 30 years ago in 1995, but software is so bloated that it is still slower!
Relevant: "Will Software Stop Getting Slower?" Jonathan Blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ka549NNdDk