nubjs · colinhacks · Aug 31, 2026 · Aug 31, 2026 · Aug 31, 2026 · Aug 31, 2026
diff --git a/.githooks/pre-push b/.githooks/pre-push
@@ -225,7 +225,9 @@ if [ -z "${NUB_SKIP_README_TABLE_CHECK:-}" ] && [ -n "$SKILLS_ROOT" ] && [ -f "$
       *) base=$(git merge-base "$local_sha" origin/main 2>/dev/null) ;;
     esac
     [ -n "$base" ] || { table_touched=1; continue; }
-    changed=$(git diff --name-only "$base" "$local_sha" -- tests/cross-runtime/ 2>/dev/null) || table_touched=1
+    # The checker also validates figures hand-copied into the site and the
+    # wiki, so a push touching only those surfaces must run it too.
+    changed=$(git diff --name-only "$base" "$local_sha" -- tests/cross-runtime/ "site/src/app/(home)/page.tsx" site/content/blog/introducing-nub.mdx wiki/research/node-test-suite-leverage.md 2>/dev/null) || table_touched=1
     [ -n "$changed" ] && table_touched=1
   done <<PUSHREFS
 $PUSH_REFS

diff --git a/site/content/blog/introducing-nub.mdx b/site/content/blog/introducing-nub.mdx
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Bun and Deno proved there's enormous appetite for an all-in-one toolkit that rep
 
 ## Introducing Nub
 
-Nub embraces it instead. It's a single Rust binary that transpiles your code and executes it on the stock `node` your project pins — so the runtime underneath *is* Node. On Node 26.7's own test suite, scored the way Deno's compatibility corpus scores it, it clears 98.5% of what real Node passes, versus 74.2% for Deno 2.9 and 68.1% for Bun 1.4. It combines:
+Nub embraces it instead. It's a single Rust binary that transpiles your code and executes it on the stock `node` your project pins — so the runtime underneath *is* Node. On Node 26.7's own test suite, scored the way Deno's compatibility corpus scores it, it clears 98.5% of what real Node passes, versus 74.2% for Deno 2.9 and 70.1% for Bun 1.4. It combines:
 
 ```console
 $ nub index.ts             # file runner — full TypeScript, on stock Node

diff --git a/site/src/app/(home)/page.tsx b/site/src/app/(home)/page.tsx
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ const COMPAT = [
   { name: 'Node 26.7', rate: 100, tests: '5,046 / 5,046', us: false, dim: false },
   { name: 'Nub', rate: 98.5, tests: '4,968 / 5,046', us: true, dim: false },
   { name: 'Deno 2.9', rate: 74.2, tests: '3,742 / 5,046', us: false, dim: true },
-  { name: 'Bun 1.4', rate: 68.1, tests: '3,438 / 5,046', us: false, dim: true },
+  { name: 'Bun 1.4', rate: 70.1, tests: '3,535 / 5,046', us: false, dim: true },
 ];
 
 function Compatibility() {

diff --git a/tests/cross-runtime/README.md b/tests/cross-runtime/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Cross-runtime Node-compatibility benchmark
 
-This harness runs Node's own test suite — the whole `test/` tree of a Node release, the same corpus Deno vendors as [`denoland/node_test`](https://github.com/denoland/node_test) — identically against `node`, `nub`, `bun`, and `deno`, and reports pass rates per runtime under several explicit scoring lenses. Nobody curates the file list: every runtime runs the same files, with the same flags, under the same pass criterion, and every runtime's failures are published by name in `results.json`.
+This harness runs Node's own test suite — the whole `test/` tree of a Node release, the same corpus Deno vendors as [`denoland/node_test`](https://github.com/denoland/node_test) — identically against `node`, `nub`, `bun`, and `deno`, and reports pass rates per runtime under several explicit scoring lenses. Nobody curates the file list: every runtime runs the same files, with the same flags, under the same pass criterion, and every runtime's failures are published by name in `results.json`. One accommodation is symmetric by design: a `node:test`-based file runs under each runtime's own test mode where it needs one (`deno test`, `bun test`) — Node runs those files as plain scripts, Deno and Bun register their tests only inside their runners, and both runtimes' own compat suites make the same switch.
 
 ## What's pinned (so it reproduces forever)
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ This harness runs Node's own test suite — the whole `test/` tree of a Node rel
 
 The nub binary is a release build of `main` at `e78a6701dd` plus the `NODE_OPTIONS` coverage-exclude change committed beside this results file. This table and the results table below are generated from `results.json` by [`readme-table.mjs`](./readme-table.mjs).
 
-macOS arm64, 2026-08-22. The retry pass flipped 1 node, 1 nub, 4 bun, 2 deno and 0 node25 verdicts, which bounds the load effect.
+macOS arm64, 2026-08-22. The retry pass flipped 1 node, 1 nub, 4 bun, 2 deno and 0 node25 verdicts, which bounds the load effect. Bun's verdicts were re-measured 2026-08-30 with the `bun test` accommodation and `BUN_TEST_DRAIN_EVENT_LOOP=1` (see `buildPlainCommand` in `run.mjs`), one full bun pass over the same v26.7.0 checkout: 99 files flipped to pass and none flipped to fail.
 
 ## Reproduce it yourself
 
@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ Node-relative pass rate (raw in parentheses). The rows are generated from `resul
 <!-- results-table -->
 | Lens | files / node passes | nub | deno 2.9.5 | bun 1.4.0 | node 25.9.0 |
 |------|---------------------|-----|------------|-----------|-------------|
-| `denoExclusions` | 5,078 / 5,046 | **98.45%** (97.87) | 74.16% (73.89) | 68.13% (67.84) | 90.15% (89.62) |
-| `bunUniverse` | 4,760 / 4,736 | **98.16%** (97.67) | 71.75% (71.49) | 69.83% (69.60) | 89.55% (89.12) |
-| `fullCorpus` | 5,664 / 5,616 | **97.40%** (96.61) | 68.07% (67.67) | 63.82% (63.47) | 89.96% (89.23) |
-| `fullCorpusNoEngine` | 4,946 / 4,904 | **97.37%** (96.58) | 71.66% (71.25) | 69.51% (69.15) | 90.03% (89.30) |
-| `bunUniverseNoEngine` | 4,111 / 4,091 | **98.22%** (97.74) | 76.04% (75.80) | 76.83% (76.60) | 89.54% (89.13) |
-| `engineSpecificOnly` | 718 / 712 | **97.61%** (96.80) | 43.40% (43.04) | 24.58% (24.37) | 89.47% (88.72) |
+| `denoExclusions` | 5,078 / 5,046 | **98.45%** (97.87) | 74.16% (73.89) | 70.06% (69.75) | 90.15% (89.62) |
+| `bunUniverse` | 4,760 / 4,736 | **98.16%** (97.67) | 71.75% (71.49) | 71.79% (71.55) | 89.55% (89.12) |
+| `fullCorpus` | 5,664 / 5,616 | **97.40%** (96.61) | 68.07% (67.67) | 65.58% (65.22) | 89.96% (89.23) |
+| `fullCorpusNoEngine` | 4,946 / 4,904 | **97.37%** (96.58) | 71.66% (71.25) | 71.41% (71.03) | 90.03% (89.30) |
+| `bunUniverseNoEngine` | 4,111 / 4,091 | **98.22%** (97.74) | 76.04% (75.80) | 78.98% (78.74) | 89.54% (89.13) |
+| `engineSpecificOnly` | 718 / 712 | **97.61%** (96.80) | 43.40% (43.04) | 25.42% (25.21) | 89.47% (88.72) |
 <!-- /results-table -->
 
 Per directory, the three that only run properly with the full checkout, the pty and the compiled fixture (node-relative passes / Node's passes): `pseudo-tty/` nub 28 / 31, deno 15, bun 12; `wpt/` nub 24 / 25, bun 6, deno 0 (see the caveat above); `ffi/` nub 11 / 13, bun 13, deno 13 (both skip every `ffi` test — `common.skip()` exits 0 — which counts as a pass under Node's own convention).
@@ -117,13 +117,13 @@ Don't report a single headline percentage as "nub's compatibility" without namin
 
 [`results-prior-versions.json`](./results-prior-versions.json) is a historical run on the Node **25.8.1** corpus (bun 1.3.14, deno 2.8.1, 2026-08-20), kept for the before/after comparison recorded in git history; it is not comparable with the table above.
 
-A regenerated `results.json` is only half the update. The published figures are hand-copied into the `COMPAT` array in `site/src/app/(home)/page.tsx` and into the compatibility sentence in `site/content/blog/introducing-nub.mdx`; nothing reads this file at build time, so both drift silently until someone copies them across.
+A regenerated `results.json` is only half the update. The published figures are hand-copied into the `COMPAT` array in `site/src/app/(home)/page.tsx` and into the compatibility sentence in `site/content/blog/introducing-nub.mdx`; nothing reads this file at build time. `readme-table.mjs --check` (run by the pre-push hook, including for pushes that touch only those files) now compares both surfaces' rates against `scores.denoExclusions` — plus the wiki research doc's lens figures and this README's own retry-flip sentence — and fails on a mismatch, so the copy step can no longer be skipped silently.
 
 ## Wording differences vs behavior differences
 
 Not every failure is a defect a user would feel. A runtime can throw the right error at the right moment and word it differently — JavaScriptCore and V8 phrase the same brand check differently, so an `assert.throws({ message })` fails on text alone. That is worth measuring rather than asserting, so we did: re-run the corpus with failure output retained (one change to `run.mjs` — keep `raw.out` in `judge()`; the pass criterion is untouched), then bucket each failure by which keys differ inside `node:assert`'s `Comparison { }` block.
 
-Forgiving every failure whose *only* difference is the message text moves bun 1.4.0 from 66.8% to 68.1% and deno 2.9.5 from 78.4% to 78.8%. nub does not move at all: it executes on the stock Node binary, so its error messages *are* Node's, and the count is zero rather than small. Also forgiving a differing or absent `code`/`name` reaches 69.1% and 80.3%.
+Forgiving every failure whose *only* difference is the message text moves bun 1.4.0 from 66.8% to 68.1% and deno 2.9.5 from 78.4% to 78.8% (measured on the 2026-08-29 verdicts, before the `bun test` accommodation shifted bun's baseline; the classification of individual failures is unaffected). nub does not move at all: it executes on the stock Node binary, so its error messages *are* Node's, and the count is zero rather than small. Also forgiving a differing or absent `code`/`name` reaches 69.1% and 80.3%.
 
 **The published figures forgive neither, and the second is the reason.** Message text is cosmetic; error identity is not. bun frequently throws a raw JavaScriptCore `TypeError` carrying no `code` property at all, which breaks any program branching on `err.code === 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE'` — a real incompatibility that a text-only classifier reports as a wording nit.
 

diff --git a/tests/cross-runtime/readme-table.mjs b/tests/cross-runtime/readme-table.mjs
@@ -85,9 +85,97 @@ for (const blk of BLOCKS) {
     console.log(expected + "\n");
   }
 }
+// The published figures are hand-copied onto four surfaces and nothing else
+// rechecks them — the homepage COMPAT array, the blog sentence and the wiki
+// research doc all drifted when a re-measurement moved a score, and this
+// README's own retry-flip sentence went stale twice in one PR. --check
+// compares every one against results.json; a missing file exits 2
+// (uncheckable), a mismatch exits 1 like table drift.
+function checkHandCopies() {
+  const by = (lens) => {
+    const s = results.scores[lens];
+    const m = Object.fromEntries(s.runtimes.map((r) => [r.runtime, r]));
+    return { rate: (rt) => (m[rt].pass / s.nodePass * 100).toFixed(1), pass: (rt) => m[rt].pass, nodePass: s.nodePass };
+  };
+  const deno = by("denoExclusions"), bun = by("bunUniverse"), full = by("fullCorpus");
+  // major.minor from the measured binary, so a re-measure on a newer runtime
+  // also forces the hand-written 'Bun 1.4' / 'Deno 2.9' labels to move.
+  const mm = (rt) => version(rt).split(".").slice(0, 2).join(".");
+  const surfaces = [
+    {
+      file: path.join(HERE, "../../site/src/app/(home)/page.tsx"),
+      wants: [
+        { re: /name: 'Nub', rate: ([\d.]+), tests: '([\d,]+) \/ ([\d,]+)'/, lens: deno, rt: "nub" },
+        { re: /name: 'Deno [\d.]+', rate: ([\d.]+), tests: '([\d,]+) \/ ([\d,]+)'/, lens: deno, rt: "deno" },
+        { re: /name: 'Bun [\d.]+', rate: ([\d.]+), tests: '([\d,]+) \/ ([\d,]+)'/, lens: deno, rt: "bun" },
+        { re: /name: 'Deno ([\d.]+)'/, value: mm("deno"), label: "Deno version label" },
+        { re: /name: 'Bun ([\d.]+)'/, value: mm("bun"), label: "Bun version label" },
+      ],
+    },
+    {
+      file: path.join(HERE, "../../site/content/blog/introducing-nub.mdx"),
+      wants: [
+        { re: /clears ([\d.]+)% of what real Node passes/, lens: deno, rt: "nub" },
+        { re: /([\d.]+)% for Deno/, lens: deno, rt: "deno" },
+        { re: /([\d.]+)% for Bun/, lens: deno, rt: "bun" },
+        { re: /for Deno (\d+\.\d+)/, value: mm("deno"), label: "Deno version label" },
+        { re: /for Bun (\d+\.\d+)/, value: mm("bun"), label: "Bun version label" },
+      ],
+    },
+    {
+      file: path.join(HERE, "../../wiki/research/node-test-suite-leverage.md"),
+      wants: [
+        { re: /skip list: nub ([\d.]+)%, deno ([\d.]+)%, bun ([\d.]+)%/, lens: deno, rts: ["nub", "deno", "bun"] },
+        { re: /nothing skipped\): nub ([\d.]+)%, deno ([\d.]+)%, bun ([\d.]+)%/, lens: bun, rts: ["nub", "deno", "bun"] },
+        { re: /wrappers: nub ([\d.]+)%, deno ([\d.]+)%, bun ([\d.]+)%/, lens: full, rts: ["nub", "deno", "bun"] },
+      ],
+    },
+    {
+      file: README,
+      wants: [
+        {
+          re: /flipped (\d+) node, (\d+) nub, (\d+) bun, (\d+) deno and (\d+) node25 verdicts/,
+          counts: ["node", "nub", "bun", "deno", "node25"].map((rt) => String(results.meta.retried?.[rt]?.flippedToPass ?? "?")),
+          label: "retry-flip counts vs meta.retried",
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+  ];
+  let bad = false;
+  for (const { file, wants } of surfaces) {
+    let src;
+    try { src = fs.readFileSync(file, "utf8"); } catch (e) { console.error(`cannot read ${file}: ${e.message}`); process.exit(2); }
+    for (const w of wants) {
+      const m = w.re.exec(src);
+      const name = w.label || w.rt || (w.rts || []).join("/");
+      if (!m) { console.error(`${path.basename(file)}: pattern for ${name} not found (${w.re})`); bad = true; continue; }
+      if (w.value !== undefined) {
+        if (m[1] !== w.value) { console.error(`${path.basename(file)}: ${name} says ${m[1]}, measured binary is ${w.value}`); bad = true; }
+        continue;
+      }
+      const rts = w.counts ? [] : (w.rts || [w.rt]);
+      rts.forEach((rt, i) => {
+        const want = w.lens.rate(rt);
+        if (m[1 + i] !== want) { console.error(`${path.basename(file)}: ${rt} says ${m[1 + i]}, results.json says ${want}`); bad = true; }
+      });
+      if (w.counts) {
+        w.counts.forEach((want, i) => {
+          if (m[1 + i] !== want) { console.error(`${path.basename(file)}: ${name} — position ${i + 1} says ${m[1 + i]}, meta.retried says ${want}`); bad = true; }
+        });
+      }
+      if (w.rt && m[2] && (m[2] !== n(w.lens.pass(w.rt)) || m[3] !== n(w.lens.nodePass))) {
+        console.error(`${path.basename(file)}: ${w.rt} tests say ${m[2]} / ${m[3]}, results.json says ${n(w.lens.pass(w.rt))} / ${n(w.lens.nodePass)}`);
+        bad = true;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return bad;
+}
+
 if (process.argv.includes("--check")) {
+  if (checkHandCopies()) drifted = true;
   if (drifted) process.exit(1);
-  console.log("README tables match results.json");
+  console.log("README tables and site figures match results.json");
 } else if (process.argv.includes("--write")) {
   fs.writeFileSync(README, readme);
   console.log("README tables rewritten");