Tuesday, January 06
Daily News Stuff 6 January 2026
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- AMD's Ryzen 9850X3D CPU is here, the new fastest gaming CPU. (Tom's Hardware)
It's identical the the previous fastest gaming CPU, the Ryzen 9800X3D, but bumps the clock speed up from 5.2GHz to 5.6GHz.
And that's the most exciting announcement today.
- AMD also announced the Ryzen 400 laptop CPU series, which is 2% faster than the 300 series. (Tom's Hardware)
And in certain areas, slower than the equivalent 200 series.
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- Intel announced its Panther Lake "Series 3" - or is that Series 3 "Panther Lake" - laptop CPUs. (Tom's Hardware)
The earlier leaks were correct in every detail.
Only four performance cores on even the fastest models, but up to eight efficiency cores and eight low power cores. Plus up to twelve graphics cores - but only if you sacrifice expandable memory.
- OWC announced a Thunderbolt 5 desktop storage array that can hold 192TB of SSD and deliver data at 6.6GB per second. (Tom's Hardware)
Which is actually not that fast; a singe PCIe 5.0 SSD can do double that.
As for the 192TB model, keep dreaming: No price and the 96TB model is already $15,500.
- Stack Overflow's demise in a single picture. (Stack Exchange)
The founders sold the company a few years ago for $1.9 billion. Now it is dead.
- HP's Eliteboard G1a features an eight core Ryzen 350 CPU, up to 64GB of RAM, and a 2TB SSD. (Hot Hardware)
There's just one strange thing: It's a keyboard.
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I trace the beginning of Stack Overflow's demise to their
unjustified firing of a well-liked moderator (who went by the username
Monica) for not bending the knee sufficiently to wokery, and their
subsequent doubling down on similar bad decisions.
I have a folder labeled "Bad faith from Stack Exchange" full of screenshots that I was planning to put together with explanations at some point and publish, to warn people away from the site. Looks like I won't have to publish it after all.
(Though honestly, the rise of LLMs may have more to do with Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange's decline than their wokery. These days people with questions are going to ask Claude or Grok or ChatGPT first. But I like to think it was Stack Overflow's wokery that started the decline, and that LLMs only accelerated it.)
I have a folder labeled "Bad faith from Stack Exchange" full of screenshots that I was planning to put together with explanations at some point and publish, to warn people away from the site. Looks like I won't have to publish it after all.
(Though honestly, the rise of LLMs may have more to do with Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange's decline than their wokery. These days people with questions are going to ask Claude or Grok or ChatGPT first. But I like to think it was Stack Overflow's wokery that started the decline, and that LLMs only accelerated it.)
Posted by: Robin Munn at Wednesday, January 07 2026 01:24 PM (Sa9rF)
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Yeah, they were working hard on suicide when ChatGPT arrived and killed them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, January 07 2026 05:12 PM (PiXy!)
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