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 👇
🌀 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!
🥇 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.
🥈 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.
🥉 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.
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