Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Official Video)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mostly used as a joke reference to the song's lyrics in AI threads, and cited for its robot-band theme in a thread about the song's tempo.
What it is
The official music video for Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, taken from Discovery. It is a chapter of the anime film Interstella 5000 supervised by Leiji Matsumoto.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends altairprime · 2026-01 · on “Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?”
This is thematically amazing when you consider what the song is about — the roboticization of the abducted band. (Music video:) [this video] 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 n