[HN Gopher] Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Bet...
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       Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster,
       Stronger?
        
       Author : simonw
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2026-01-02 21:27 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.madebywindmill.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.madebywindmill.com)
        
       | xvxvx wrote:
       | Thinking back to when Aphex Twin encoded his face into a track:
       | https://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10
        
         | styluss wrote:
         | And Venetian Snares encoded his cat
         | https://eeggs.com/items/46956.html
        
           | tantalor wrote:
           | And Benn encoded a bird into birdsong
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo
        
           | afandian wrote:
           | Thanks for the reminder of eeggs.com! It still has an Easter
           | egg I found in my printer that I submitted 25 years ago. I
           | wonder how many models of obsolete hardware that site
           | documents...
        
           | duskwuff wrote:
           | Into the final track of an album titled "Songs About My
           | Cats", titled "Look". :3
           | 
           | There's a better visualization of the track here:
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           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHup81lEjqo
        
       | altairprime wrote:
       | This is thematically amazing when you consider what the song is
       | about -- the roboticization of the abducted band. (Music video:)
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/gAjR4_CbPpQ
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       | In this song, which is also chapter four of the movie Interstella
       | 5000 movie (spoilers from here!), the knocked-out singers are
       | scanned, parameterized, brainwashed, uploaded into The Matrix,
       | and then used in the following songs of the movie-album to
       | robotically mass produce music.
       | 
       | It makes _perfect_ sense that the BPM is 123.45 because that's
       | exactly the sort of thing you get when a manager (who's shown at
       | the end!) just enters some numbers on the keyboard into the bpm
       | field. They don't keysmash the numpad; they just hit 123456789
       | until the field is full!
       | 
       | So not only does the song itself convey what some boss thinks is
       | music, robotically beating at 123.45 bpm, but it is itself about
       | being endlessly-rotating brainwashed-boring cogs in a pop music
       | production industrial machine. I'm pretty sure the movie scene
       | cuts and animations are timed specifically to the beats of the
       | song, but knowing that they're timed to a machine-specific bpm
       | that a human would never select at random with a metronome?
       | 
       | Absolute genius.
       | 
       | I had no idea. Thanks for posting this.
        
       | brcmthrowaway wrote:
       | Tell me when we can get realtime stem splitting!
        
       | jonas21 wrote:
       | There's a minor issue with the calculations. It should be:
       | 60 * 445 / 216.276 = 123.453365145                  60 * 445 /
       | 216.282 = 123.449940356
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       | Not the other way around. It doesn't really change anything --
       | both are very close to 123.45.
        
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