How Philips Hue got the smart home right

A photo of a lightbulb glowing purple. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The state of the smart home can be frustrating, because it is just so obvious how things ought to work. You should be able to control everything from everywhere. Your spaces should adapt to what you’re doing and how you’re … Read more

Less is more with the Oura Ring 5

The cross stitch pattern is by NathNolu on Etsy. If you’re reading an Oura Ring 5 review at The Verge, you likely fall into one of two camps: newcomers looking for a smartwatch alternative, or Oura users pondering an upgrade. In the case of the former, this is a great casual health tracker and the … Read more

The fight against AI data centers is just beginning

A yard sign opposing a planned data center is displayed along Route 54 in Mount Carmel Township Northumberland County. | Image: Getty Images This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the data center buildout, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ … Read more

Multi-Layer Semantic Caching for Production LLM Systems

Introduction In a previous article, I described building an agentic search framework in Go. While that architecture handled the functional requirements well, operating it at scale revealed significant cost and latency challenges. At millions of queries per month, LLM API costs, and P95 latency approached 5 seconds. This article presents the semantic caching architecture we implemented to address these issues. The system reduced … Read more

78 Blog Posts To Learn About Backend Development

Let’s learn about Backend Development via these 78 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Backend development involves programming and maintaining the server-side logic, databases, and APIs that power an application’s frontend. It matters as … Read more

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Family with Sol, Terra, and Luna for Flexible AI Choices

Overview OpenAI has publicized a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 model family, which contains three models (Sol, Terra, and Luna) that will allow users and developers to select based on intelligence, speed, and price. The Three Models GPT -5.6 Sol (the flagship model) is identified by OpenAI as the most powerful version released thus far, with its … Read more