The top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 12 / 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 👇
🥇 Finding Comfort in the Uncertainty
8 min • by Annie Vella
Annie joined the future of software development retreat, hosted by Martin Fowler and Thoughtworks, and reported back her thoughts, which I pretty much enjoyed. I love the eight themes she extracted and how she framed them.
🥈 GNU and the AI Reimplementations
9 min • by antirez
Antirez implicitly comments on the recent controversies about AI reimplementations (1, 2) by looking at examples from the past. I loved the historical perspective and also the new mental model he proposes: what matters now is design, novelty, and craft, not just the code itself.
🥉 Prioritize Relatively
2 min • by Boz
Super short post in Boz’s signature style, about how you should not prioritize things in isolation — but only prioritize them against each other.
4) Good Software Knows When to Stop
3 min • by Olivier Girardot
Good software knows the purpose it serves and doesn’t try to do everything. The hardest product discipline is recognizing when what you want to build next doesn’t fit your product vision — and that it should be a different tool instead.
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