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Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
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Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#52I prefer to Enjoy the Silence.
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#53This question seems to come up once a week. People never get tired of answering it.
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#54Trance! http://s-torm.com/forum/dload.php?action=category&cat_id...
Digitally Imported radio (di.fm) is a great trance channel. I used to subscribe for $5/month to get their higher quality feed, which was worth it when I had good headphones. I spent a lot of hours in the library coding and doing math listening to di.fm. They have other great channels like "chillout" and "house" which are also good for coding. Chillout is, well, chiller and good for relaxed coding sessions and house i…
di.fm used to be good; then they grew bigger and started charging (about the same time their music selection quality started to decline).
These days I'll listen to MrsFudge Streaming Radio, which has the best music voting system I've seen: http://gurba.sytes.net
Alternately, there's Proton radio: http://www.protonradio.com/
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
As new users sign up to HN, and older submissions drop down the list, it's the sort of question which is apt to come up a couple of times.
Yes, and it's the kind of thing searching was invented for. But for some reason HN refuses to provide a way to search posts and comments (no, having to go to Google and search news.ycombinator.com is not decent search. Google doesn't take into consideration how long ago a post was, how many comments it had and how many votes it received, all information I think is useful for determining relevance of the results).
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#56They Might Be Giants
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#57Progressive trance streamed from ETN.FM.
Yeah, progressive trance, dnb, and hard house (I think it's called).
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#58This question seems to come up once a week. People never get tired of answering it.
If we don't keep our supply of hacking music fresh then we could all die... I mean, stop hacking as well.
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#59psytrance or any kind of hypnotic techno music when programming
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#60Mostly dubstep recently, since you can just sink into it and get into a nice groove: http://dubstep.fm
IDM or drum n bass for occasions where hardcore coding is needed.