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Jason Fantl
Personal blog · jasonfantl.com/posts · on HN as jfantlprogrammingscience
Jason Fantl's personal blog at jasonfantl.com covers programming and science. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Cosmologically Unique IDs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-06, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a thought experiment on UUIDs: how many bits an ID space would need if the universe generated UUIDs until its heat death.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog where I write about my computer science projects, usually with some animations, code, and/or simulations.
Most-linked posts?
- Cosmologically Unique IDs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-14
What Hacker News says?
This is awesome stuff, I'm going to look into getting this running my Pis this weekend. How hard would it be to add in custom services? I like to play with decentralized algorithms such as Size Estimation and Clock Synchronization ( https://jasonfantl.com/ ) and have always wanted to get them running on real hardware.
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on “Show HN: Decentralized robots (and things) orchestration system”Submitted What Is Entropy? as a story · 288 points
HN discussionhttps://jasonfantl.com/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Rediscovering Quaternions as a story · 125 points
HN discussionGood moment to revisit this fun article: https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/ If the entire universe were turned into a giant computer and did nothing but generate uuids until its heat death, how many bits would you need for the ID space?
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on “Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...”Submitted Simulated Economy Tutorial as a story · 106 points
HN discussionI did something similar, but started somewhere different: The individuals personal value of a good. You might find it interesting as a different approach to a similar project. https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Simulated-Economy-(1)/
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on “Building an Economy Simulator from Scratch”Submitted Voice Controlled Swarms as a story · 33 points
HN discussionhttps://jasonfantl.com Brief posts on topics I'm interested in, or projects I've worked on. My favorites: - shaping swarms: https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Shaping-Swarms/ - simulating a simple economy: https://jasonfantl.com/categories/simulated-economy/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Cosmologically Unique IDs as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prototyping a Voice-Controlled RTS Game with LLM Agents (Part 1) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Broadcasts in Reliable Ad-Hoc Networks as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Medium Access Control Protocols as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Universal Codes for Variable-Length Encoding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Collision Avoidance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swarm Cluster Identification as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bit Propagation over a Noisy Grid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cosmologically Unique IDs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefly Synchronization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating a Toy Economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamic Swarm Cluster Identification as a story · 1 points
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