What your Differential Pairs Wish You Knew with Rick Hartley - AltiumLive Keynote

Why HN readers recommended it

HN engineers cite Hartley as the intuitive, field-based alternative to cargo-cult PCB advice, especially on differential pair routing, reference planes and EMI.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Altium

Topic

pcb differential pair design

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

10

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Basically, go watch every Rick Hartley video on YouTube. He is awesome at explaining. It will become intuitive instead of being a bunch of cargo cult advice. (Normally I dislike long videos but this is absolutely worth your time if you design PCBs.) [VIDEO]

• The article is not that good, but whatever. I am new to electronics myself and quite fascinated how has the art progressed in the past hundred or so years. There are people remembering "we were doing it wrong". Incredible. Anyway, if you are interested in …

• I have some further video recommendations: [LINK] ("How to achieve proper grounding") [LINK] ("Keys to control noise, interference, and EMI in PCBs") [VIDEO] ("What your differential pairs wish you knew") [LINK] ("Secrets of PCB optimization") These are all by Rick Hartley (from GP's comment) and …