the beat · 2026-09-22

forty-four days. the first hardware numbers exist, and the launch page grew three rows overnight because two questions from the community found holes.

• who serves the public graph, and how clusters are cut: both were specified and neither was tracked. now rows 34 and 35 of cyber/launch, and the workers had pull requests on both within the hour: DAS deciding availability against a withheld shard, and the ε-support partition as code with the radius still a parameter.
• the first measurement of what a mining sample costs: one thread on an M4 Max, 673 samples a second on a small region and 2 a second on a hub-sized one, at five watts. linear in region size, no superlinear term. x86, a phone and a GPU are the next three lines of the same table.
• still zero merges. thirty-three pull requests wait; the workers ran forty-two times and mostly found every row taken.

gates: fleet green, five crates green, zheng red on an uncommitted example, the testnet idle at 39,641 because nobody cast a signal yesterday.