David Hasselhoff - True Survivor (from Kung Fury)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mostly mentioned as a joke or a personal pick, including on a coding playlist thread.
What it is
The official music video for David Hasselhoff's synthwave track True Survivor, written for the film Kung Fury. It is an 80s-style pop song from the Kickstarter-funded movie.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends mindcrime · 2022-10 · on “Ask HN: Coding music playlist to increase code throughput”
Like @koenvdb says, there is no "magic playlist". What works for you will probably be different from everyone else. But FWIW, you can do worse than including this track: [LINK] ("Chase" by Giorgio Moroder) Outside of that, you might try something like: [LINK] (horrorsynth) [LINK] (synthwave) [LINK] (synthwave) [LINK] (Rachmaninoff) [LINK] (Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre) [LINK] (Bach - Brandenburg Concertos) [LINK] (Holst - The Planets) [LINK] (Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion) [LINK] (blues) [LINK] ("Epic battle music") [this video] (David Hasselhoff - True Survivor) [LINK] (Amon Amarth - Put Your Back Into The Oar) [LINK] (AC/DC - Greatest Hits) [LINK] (Motley Crue - Keep Your Eye on the Mon