Cosmologically Unique IDs(jasonfantl.com)
443 points by jfantl | 140 comments
A blog post by Jason Fantl exploring how to generate IDs that would remain unique across the entire universe, from UUIDs to cosmological scales.
#unique-identifiers on Hacker News
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Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs(github.com)
371 points by dloreto | 198 comments
GitHub repository for TypeID, a type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier format based on UUIDv7 and inspired by Stripe IDs.