Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

Post by ElFitz » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 7:33 PM UTC

lambdaone wrote: post #57

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> Placement is probably the big issue that needs to be solved now. Would some sort of constraint-solving algorithm help with that? Something like (but not necessarily) Cassowary[0]? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what is meant by placement though; I don't have much domain knowledge in PCBs / electronics. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362528

I've written my own autoplacer/autorouter. Placement is where you put the components on the board, routing is how you shape the traces to interconnect them. It does a pretty decent job on small hobby-project boards of ~40 components (which is my use case at the moment), and I'm working part-time in the background on scaling it further. The resulting designs pass all the KiCad electrical and geometry checks. Granted,…

Post by trollbridge » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:32 PM UTC

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AI can’t really spell check without risking changing the meaning of sentences. Spell checking was a solved problem before this.

Spellchecking is absolutely not a solved problem. I immediately disable spellchecking on every avenue it tries to approach because managing a bunch of dictionaries on every browser/device/application that has its own spellchecker for some godforsaken reason to not have squigglies spammed over every piece of jargon, slang, and slightly atypical spelling is incredibly annoying. I don't know how effective LLMs are, but…

Post by trollbridge » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:33 PM UTC

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Spellchecking is absolutely not a solved problem. I immediately disable spellchecking on every avenue it tries to approach because managing a bunch of dictionaries on every browser/device/application that has its own spellchecker for some godforsaken reason to not have squigglies spammed over every piece of jargon, slang, and slightly atypical spelling is incredibly annoying. I don't know how effective LLMs are, but…

I can agree that LLMs might yield better results overall than a standard spellchecker. If your goal is to check your writing for plausibility and rough grammatical correctness, that's certainly an open problem for deterministic, conventionally-written software tools. My goal with spell checking is to make sure my occasional mechanical typos while using a desktop computer get caught before someone else has the chance…

Post by NateEag » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 1:48 AM UTC

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If it's a solved problem, then why does my iPhone suck at it?

Maybe it has a poor implementation. aspell works great. Back in the day I used some IBM employee written software on DOS that was a TSR that would spell check words for you in popular editors. In the 1990s every word processor had a decent spell checker. They all had the ability to add your own additional words.

Post by monuszero » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 11:52 PM UTC

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That precise mixed technique approach has worked well for me. I’ve been using JITX (python based circuit design with a powerful auto router). Free for personal use, and has been discussed a few times here in HN. Edit: it’s almost assumed at this point but for completeness Claude / Codex were the ones driving the OO python code and datasheet research and parsing. https://www.jitx.com/

Can you elaborate on what you mean by “it’s almost assumed..”? I’m actively working on datasheet parsing at scale at Zenode.ai, and I haven’t read anything specifically about this…