[HN Gopher] Music for Programming
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       Music for Programming
        
       Author : merusame
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2026-04-05 18:23 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | dijksterhuis wrote:
       | <3 music for programming
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       | some personal favourites:
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       | - https://musicforprogramming.net/seventyone
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       | - https://musicforprogramming.net/fiftyseven
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       | - https://musicforprogramming.net/fortysix
        
       | quinnjh wrote:
       | This site is a gem that has accompanied me on many spikes in the
       | last year :) datasette's original music is top tier too.
       | cognitively stimulating but not attention stealing.
        
         | klondike_klive wrote:
         | Have you listened to his "business funk" mixes? Too stimulating
         | for work (for me) but so much fun. In my head it's the
         | soundtrack to me striding through an open plan office barking
         | nonsense business jargon.
        
         | doctorhandshake wrote:
         | Agreed datasette is critically slept on
        
           | lelandfe wrote:
           | Flechte is a regular play of mine
           | https://youtu.be/-3HUn6wotvg
        
         | nakedneuron wrote:
         | For me, the Bach of electronic music..
        
       | dvh wrote:
       | Don't laugh, but for me, it's Abba. Their entire discography is
       | ~3 hours which is how long I can maintain peak concentration.
       | Their songs are consistently good so that I don't need to skip a
       | song, but not too good that I would stop working and start
       | listening. Plus I've never heard Abba song in any good movie so
       | it doesn't remind me scenes from a movie I would want to rewatch.
       | Of course I don't listen to it every day, only when I really need
       | to, most daily programming tasks can be done with any music.
        
         | hmokiguess wrote:
         | ABBA is amazing
        
         | matt_daemon wrote:
         | It would be impossible for me to not sing along to ABBA
        
         | interroboink wrote:
         | > Don't laugh
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         | I laugh (:
         | 
         | But good for you, whatever works. Personally, I can't do music
         | with much lyrics or narrative; I find it distracting.
         | 
         | But to each their own!
        
         | olivierestsage wrote:
         | Mamma Mia soundtrack also works well \m/
        
       | do_it_simpler wrote:
       | This sight got me through many projects in college :)
        
       | Lyngbakr wrote:
       | I recently discovered Lorn and have been mainlining his back
       | catalogue ever since whilst working. Thoroughly interesting and
       | immersive yet not distracting.
        
       | supliminal wrote:
       | I remember downloading music from the hacking e-show "The Scene"
       | way back when - must have been late 2000s? Some great music in
       | there like Newborn Butterflies if I remember the name right. It
       | was nice background music in the show and I'd put it on from time
       | to time.
        
       | gurst wrote:
       | This is music for programming: https://velato.net/ (or music as
       | programming??)
        
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