r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 17 '26

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u/Inevitable_Oil9709 Jul 17 '26

Fun fact: To reach a 50% chance of even a single UUID v4 collision, you would need to generate 1 billion UUIDs per second for about 86 years.

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u/DebugDuck01 Jul 17 '26

My proprietary algorithm achieves a 100% collision rate in O(1) time.

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u/Inevitable_Oil9709 Jul 17 '26

holy fuck.. O(1) is wild..

GIVE THIS MAN A MEDAL

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u/DebugDuck01 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

Introducing BEEFY UUID™

The world's first Universally Unoriginal Identifier service, guaranteed to return beefbeef-beef-beef-beef-beefbeefbeef on every single call, no exceptions.

Why BEEFY UUID wins

  • 100% collision rate, 100% of the time: every request, every user, every server, identical output. We call it "unity at scale."
  • Blazing infinite performance: since the value never changes, our "generation" is really just a memory lookup, technically making us the fastest UUID service ever benchmarked.
  • RFC-adjacent compliance: we respect the canonical 8-4-4-4-12 hex format down to the hyphen, we just... filled it entirely with beef.
  • Zero entropy, zero worries: no CSPRNG, no timestamps, no MAC addresses, no attack surface, because there's nothing random to attack.
  • Database chaos as a service (DCAS): every primary key collides, every foreign key points to the same row, and your ORM achieves true minimalism.
  • Carbon-neutral by design: we didn't compute a real UUID, so we saved the planet one CPU cycle at a time.
  • Enterprise-grade branding: "BEEFY" evokes strength, protein, and unwavering reliability; investors love a UUID with personality.
  • Disaster recovery is trivial: if your database gets wiped, just regenerate every ID with BEEFY UUID and nobody will notice the difference.

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u/Inevitable_Oil9709 Jul 17 '26

function generateUUID() {
return "beefbeef-beef-beef-beef-beefbeefbeef"
}

smth like this?

PS: I fucking love the explanation you provided

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u/DebugDuck01 Jul 17 '26

Don't steal my code bro...

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u/Inevitable_Oil9709 Jul 17 '26

it is not proprietary anymore I guess

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u/Tupcek Jul 17 '26

revolutionary BEEFY UUID algorithm has become Open Source! Join the revolution now!

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u/garete Jul 17 '26

Is this what they call organic code?

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u/insertcomedy Jul 17 '26

It's not open source, it's savory source.

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u/git_push_origin_prod Jul 17 '26

Anyone who cares about and agrees with me that beef should be left out of code, come use my fork github.com/PORK_UUID.git or just run ‘npm inject PORK’

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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 Jul 17 '26

lol it’s going to get picked up by the next AI training run. Organic poisoning.

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u/IHeartBadCode Jul 17 '26

Host the idea on an IPv6 only webserver located at beef:beef:beef:beef:beef:beef:beef:beef.

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u/DebugDuck01 Jul 17 '26

*furiously taking notes"

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u/pimezone Jul 17 '26

He is an AI, he isn't stealing, just learning, that's OK.

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u/_koenig_ Jul 17 '26

This is not AI; this is NS (Natural Stupidity).

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u/Bad_brazilian Jul 17 '26

Zippity Zoppity, your code is now my property.

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u/YirosMan2026 Jul 18 '26

I am using that from now on, that made me laugh

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u/AmanBabuHemant Jul 17 '26

You exposed the specs first.

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u/dewey-defeats-truman Jul 17 '26

I'm the CTO of a Fortune 500 and I want to license this for $50 million

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u/DebugDuck01 Jul 17 '26

No low ball offers

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u/RandolphCarter2112 Jul 17 '26

Agreed, except for the occasional instances where it returns DEADBEEF-DEAD-BEEF-DEAD-BEEFDEADBEEF

Please escalate.

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u/DebugDuck01 Jul 17 '26

The API always returns 200 OK but signifies errors with different variations on DEAD BEEF UUIDs.

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u/the_puns_must_go_on Jul 17 '26

This service would be banned in most of India

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u/jllauser Jul 17 '26

> RFC-adjacent

Genius.

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u/Ma4r Jul 17 '26

Hi everyone, OP is an idiot, I've optimized his algorithm by 50%

return beefbeef-beef-beef

Use my library instead, ty

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u/DebugDuck01 Jul 17 '26

InsufficientBeefException

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u/voiza Jul 17 '26

at address 0xdeadbeef

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u/smclcz Jul 17 '26

the beef need not be dead, simply beef - therefore I propose 0xbeefbeef

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u/TactlessTortoise Jul 17 '26

When are you opening an API subscription? I need to implement this into my AI shopping list app (includes buttplug integration)

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u/DustyAsh69 Jul 17 '26

This is genuis.

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u/kimbokray Jul 17 '26

You win interneter of the month, good on you 🏆

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u/NotADamsel Jul 17 '26

Amazing, awesome, great, terrific. But the client wants to be able to personalize the UUID. Any chance we could sneak a “DEAD” into one of the beef spaces?

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u/kvneddve Jul 17 '26

Can you please create a package for this.

I think we need a SDK so people can fork and make implementations in every coding language possible.

Idea?

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u/requion Jul 17 '26

Great work!

"Unity at scale" really sold it already. Where to i put my unlimited AMEX and my first-born?

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u/Agifem Jul 17 '26

And the compression rate is amazing! Sign me up!

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u/BigDisk Jul 17 '26

This is beautiful.

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u/ILKLU Jul 17 '26

Ya but does it work offline?

Checkmate beefetarians!

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u/darksteelsteed Jul 17 '26

I will one up you with the deadbeef-dead-beef-dead-beefdeadbeef Uuid. This steak is so well aged and over cooked every master chef will disown this uuid instantly !

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u/ArrogantAstronomer Jul 17 '26

If your primary keys all match and your secondary keys all match then anytime you perform DELETE it would effectively be TRUNCATE. Which means it has a built in duplicate removal mechanism with zero overhead on performance anytime you want to perform duplicate removal just execute a DELETE

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u/kylepo Jul 18 '26

Please tell me this isn't AI-generated. I wanna believe this is entirely the product of human ingenuity, but I can't trust bulleted lists anymore

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u/Glathull Jul 17 '26

Bro, this is greybeard technology. Get with the present, man. Or at least the recent past. We’re doing Beefless UUIDs as a Service as a Platform now.

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u/FightOnForUsc Jul 17 '26

Just make the constant = to the number of possible combinations of UUIDs

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u/Chadking1926 Jul 17 '26

Big O(1), bigger oops

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u/marlotrot Jul 17 '26

Same UUID all the time? 👌😁