Hacker News Reader

And not “Satisfiability modulo theories” either, it seems. I would never recommend people to “move on” from an interesting article, though.

Agreed.

At first glance, I genuinely thought this was going to be a pitch for yet another fragile additive manufacturing toy with narrow usecase, or a new process that enables IPC-7092 designs on the cheap.

I read it as Shin Megami Tensei, but that's even less likely.

What makes you think ISA design is not in the wheelhouse of “hardware folks”?

It was a half-hearted remark in passing targeted towards the class of "hardware folks" who might care about the finer details of surface mount technology. Try not to get too offended.

Imagine my confusion, I clicked thinking I was going to read an article discussing 'Through-Hole vs. Surface' mounting of PCB components.