2026-08-19 (evening) - Names, and proving they are ours

The name search went from built to working, and then grew the provenance machinery it needed. D070-D073; 24 crates, 265 tests.

Two bugs and a milestone.

The hasher had been reading the SHA-1 digest little-endian since the first commit. Every NID this project ever computed was wrong. Nothing caught it because every test hashed with an arbitrary suffix and compared against its own output - self-consistent, and self-consistently wrong.

The suffix I had been treating as unobtainable was fine all along; the byte order was the problem. Once fixed:

Executable	Imports	Named
2 MB	715	83
96 MB	1,380	161

And the function the 96 MB executable calls 431 million times is sceKernelDirectMemoryQuery. It asks about direct memory, is told "unimplemented", and asks again forever. The wall has a name.

Surprises

• A test that compares a component to itself proves only internal consistency. Both halves of a two-sided convention were individually well-tested and jointly wrong. The missing test was the agreement: decode(encode(hash(name))) == hash(name), which needs no suffix, no module, and no external reference.
• The combinatorial generator produced real vendor names. Not just C library names - sceSysmoduleLoadModule, sceSaveDataInitialize3, sceVideoOutSetBufferAttribute2 and dozens more, invented from a grammar and confirmed by arithmetic.
• {share:5.1} on a String truncates it. Precision on a string is a maximum length, so 99.9 printed as 9. Looked like broken arithmetic.
• The provenance question is better answered by reproducibility than by logging. A log can be written after the fact; a re-derivation cannot. Verifying a recorded derivation costs an array lookup, which is what lets it gate every commit.
• observed deserved to be its own category. A name learned by debugging is entirely ours and yet not mechanically re-derivable. Folding it in with "came from outside" would have been unfair; folding it in with "generated" would have been a lie.

Outstanding

88% of imports are still unnamed. That is a vocabulary problem, not a method problem - symbols/wanted.txt is the work list and extending data/vendor.toml needs no rebuild.