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Seve Ibarluzea
Personal blog · blog.autorouting.comhardwareprogramming
Seve Ibarluzea writes autorouting, a personal blog at blog.autorouting.com about hardware and programming. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post "13 things I would have told myself..." to explain the what and why behind a pathfinding demo. It is a small single-comment thread, so the valued point is context for the demo.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Algorithms, benchmarks and open datasets for open-source PCB autorouting.
Most-linked posts?
- Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-28
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.autorouting.com/p/13-things-i-would-have-told-m... I found this blog post helps understand the what and why for the demo.
Comment linking /p/13-things-i-would-have-told-myself
on “Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding”Submitted Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter as a story · 396 points
HN discussionWe work on this a lot at tscircuit, and we've used cassowary (i.e. flexbox-style) constraint solvers. The issue with cassowary/flexbox is PCBs are not as uniform as webpages w.r.t. alignment, and often have a much less nested structure (3 layers) vs web pages which have many many nested layers. CSS grid-style constraints are a much better fit IMO, but we eventually settled on sequential optimal packing[1] for "seedi…
Comment linking /p/sequential-optimal-packing-for-pcb
on “Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai”Submitted Building a Grid-Based PCB Autorouter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Caching algorithms without knowing how they work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intersection Jumping: I 100x'd my autorouter's performance with 3 rules as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sequential Optimal Packing for PCB Placement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HyperGraph Autorouting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Recursive Pattern Pathfinder as a story · 1 points
HN discussion