The top things I found this week 🏆

Week 4 / 2025

Hey there! Welcome to a new edition of Hybrid Hacker! 🌟

Every week I share the top articles I have found and personally read on the internet. I only share the stuff I believe it’s worth your time.

100% signal, 0% slop.

I mainly read things from my public daily digest, which curates an ever growing list of sources. Here is this week’s best stuff 👇

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🥇 Welcome to Gas Town

33 min • by Steve Yegge

This was the best—and wildest—reading of my week. Gas Town is like Kubernetes for AI coding agents, only with more chaos and Mad Max names. It’s an extreme take on what AI coding can be, which is useful to explore in any case: even if you are not ready for it (I am not!) it informs your intuition about what’s happening on the frontier.

Illustration from Steve Yegge’s Gas Town

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🥈 Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

8 min • by Antirez

This article is the best example of the idea that “smart people can hold two opposite ideas in your head”. Salvatore “Antirez” Sanfilippo, the creator of Redis (who I interviewed here), is not a fan of AI and doesn’t want it to succeed, but he doesn’t let that interfere with his judgment as a software professional about what’s the best way to perform his job:

it is now clear that for most projects, writing the code yourself is no longer sensible, if not to have fun.

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🥉 This Might Be Oversharing

6 min • by James O’Malley

A candid piece about how the author’s social life collapsed post-pandemic — and how he intentionally rebooted it. It gave me a lot to think about and provided great insights on building community. Might inspire you to organize dinners!

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4) One Bottleneck at a Time

7 min • by James Stanier

Great piece that builds on the famous The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt. Systems have one constraint that matters most, and focusing elsewhere is a wasted effort. Find the bottleneck (PRs piling up? Slow deploys?), put your best people on it, fix it, then move on to the next one.

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5) I Sell Onions on the Internet

12 min • by Peter Askew

This is an old article, and pretty famous too. I stumbled upon it again after a long time, and it’s just a delightful story that comes from what seems like a different era of the internet, while instead it’s just five years ago. I enjoyed reading it again.

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And that’s it for today! If you find this list useful, please share it with your friends!

You can also read the very same things I read every day via this free daily digest 📬

See you next week!

Sincerely 👋
Luca