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mahboi • yesterday at 7:09 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

People do it, but seems like you get it. Every time I'm on a new team or job, they have UUID PKs in a single DB for no reason.


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tyre • yesterday at 8:26 PM

It's because it's opaque. Signing up and seeing a page like `/companies/366` unnecessarily leaks company data. Sometime it's a huge deal, sometimes not; not here to litigate that. But it's trivially avoidable.

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