The top things I have read this week 🏆

Week 21 / 2026

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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🌀 Introducing Portent

17 min • by Luca Rossi

This week I released Portent — an open spec for organizing knowledge bases into Types, Relationships, and clear lifecycle operations. It’s meant to work as the Rails of knowledge bases: sane defaults to start with, and infinitely customizable if you want to!

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🥇 Sensors for Coding Agents

15 min • by Birgitta Böckeler

Great primer on using sensors — like ESLint rules and static analysis — as feedback loops for coding agents. The idea is that agents need guardrails to maintain code quality, and these automated checks act as their “senses” on the path to production.

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🥈 Apple Silicon Costs more than OpenRouter

5 min • by William Angel

Yet another reminder that, for 99% of us, running LLMs locally makes absolutely zero sense. This time backed by numbers.

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🥉 Not So Locked In

2 min • by Simon Willison

Programming languages used to be lock-in — they’re increasingly not. LLMs are making it feasible to port entire codebases across languages and frameworks, which changes how you think about tech choices, risks you can take, and more.

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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