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We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
https://alexsci.com/blog/uuid-oops/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/harnessing-office-chaos/
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/
https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Crypto/getRandomValues#:~:text=To%20guarantee%20enough,for%20cryptographic%20purposes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_(probability_theory)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Nyquist_noise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Version_7_(timestamp_and_random)
https://eu.mouser.com/new/leetronics/leetronics-infinite-noise-trng/
https://everyuuid.com/
https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
https://github.com/paralleldrive/cuid2
https://github.com/tracker1/node-uuid4/blob/master/browser.mjs
https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/blob/e1f42a354593093ba0479f0b4047dae82d28c507/src/rng.ts
https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/commit/91805f665c38b691ac2cbda56a99231432b00a1a#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5R23-R421
https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/issues/546
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Infinite_Improbability_Drive
https://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/products/quantis-qrng-pcie/
https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgh30BiWG58
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932422
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033853
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062322
https://www.npmjs.com/package/uuid
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5732138A/en
https://www.random.org/
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html#unguessability
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/hairdryer-or-lighter-french-police-look-at-claim-of-sensor-tampering-to-win-weather-bets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-RyuDLR4o
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2026/02/26/kansas-invalidates-ids-and-birth-certificates-of-transgender-people/88849422007/
https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai
https://daveschumaker.net/adventures-in-topology-the-cuckoos-egg-and-meeting-cliff-stoll/
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/01/15/broncos-reporter-ai-facebook-post-death/
https://economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/02/27/the-uttar-pradesh-association-of-dead-people
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BLPSELFPUB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_Dead_People
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_a_page_about_you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SELFSOURCE
https://immich.netrun.club/share/Qdl6SzRjW9zoQyxEV0Jct7ZkgpJWxndf0hniYLnDSQwV2ckCqsErN4PvU0lYk6MhjzQ
https://www.leprogres.fr/faits-divers-justice/2023/02/28/jeanne-pouchain-toujours-morte-pour-l-administration-mais-a-nouveau-vivante
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037923
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/03/they-said-i-dont-exist-but-i-am-here-one-womans-battle-to-prove-she-isnt-dead
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/16/romanian-court-tells-man-he-is-not-alive
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tjzedonSCpE?t=69&feature=share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrdEMERq8MA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVl0NS0vu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szqXppELItw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmfsmasjVA
Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_modes
https://hearingandme.com/can-tinnitus-be-cured-what-science-really-says/
Former master-tech building AI systems – how to break into software?
https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/
Before Open Source took over the server, what was the discourse like?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
https://app.bootstrapp.ai
https://eidara.dev
https://fossil-scm.org
https://www.getoutline.com
https://hyperclast.com/
https://obsidian.md/help/sync/settings#Selective+syncing
https://triliumnotes.org/
What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
https://figure.ai
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PkUOl2FRQss
Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
https://charmindustrial.com/
https://cs61.seas.harvard.edu/site/2025/
https://matthewgerring.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917314
Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs
https://github.com/antirez/ds4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047722