Hackernews posts about Shannon

Shannon is Claude Elwood Shannon, an American mathematician and electrical engineer who laid the foundation for modern information theory and digital communication systems.

1. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory (github.com)
   83 points by sammy0910 28 days ago | 21 comments
2. Shannon Got AI This Far. Kolmogorov Shows Where It Stops (medium.com)
   12 points by tosh 11 days ago | 4 comments
3. A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Claude Shannon [pdf] (people.math.harvard.edu)
   6 points by stmw 3 days ago | 1 comments
4. An alternative derivation of Shannon entropy (iczelia.net)
   4 points by purplesyringa about 8 hours ago | discuss
5. Prediction and Entropy of Printed English – Claude Shannon (1950) [pdf] (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
   3 points by thunderbong 15 days ago | discuss
6. AI agent with 2 deps that uses Shannon Entropy to decide when to act vs. ask (github.com)
   2 points by borhensaidi 17 days ago | 1 comments
7. Show HN: I extended Shannon entropy with a time-dependent learning observer (github.com)
   2 points by Tryharder997 10 days ago | discuss
8. I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
   242 points by fred1268 4 days ago | 188 comments
9. Show HN: ClawShield – Open-source security proxy for AI agents (Go, eBPF) (github.com)
   2 points by sleuthco 17 days ago | 2 comments
10. Show HN: Cloak – .env on disk has fakes, your editor shows them (CLI and VSCode) (getcloak.dev)
    1 points by wam_app about 16 hours ago | discuss
11. Show HN: Kasbah Guard – Free browser extension that catches secrets on GenAI (bekasbah.com)
    1 points by AdnaneA 15 days ago | discuss
12. Ask HN: LLMs and Information Theory?
    1 points by AnimalMuppet 27 days ago | discuss
13. Show HN: Tool to comply with the Pentagon's Claude ban (github.com)
    3 points by dabrez 17 days ago | discuss
14. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    1086 points by shannoncc 12 days ago | 986 comments
15. Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025) (88mph.fm)
    114 points by matteocantiello 9 days ago | 51 comments
16. Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas (www.getspine.ai)
    109 points by a24venka 6 days ago | 69 comments
17. Show HN: AgentArmor – open-source 8-layer security framework for AI agents (github.com)
    10 points by AgastyaTodi 5 days ago | 6 comments
18. Show HN: LucidShark - Quality pipeline for AI coding agents (lucidshark.com)
    9 points by PM_ME_YOUR_CAT about 19 hours ago | 1 comments
19. AI coding agents accidentally introduced vulnerable dependencies
    7 points by hsin003 4 days ago | 16 comments
20. Show HN: FireClaw – Open-source proxy defending AI agents from prompt injection (github.com)
    5 points by raiph_ai 1 day ago | 5 comments
21. Show HN: Open-source EU AI Act compliance layer for AI agents (8/2026 deadline)
    2 points by shotwellj 22 days ago | 6 comments
22. Show HN: RankClaw – AI-audited all 14,706 OpenClaw skills; 1,103 are malicious (rankclaw.com)
    2 points by do_anh_tu 12 days ago | 1 comments
23. Show HN: CodeLedger – deterministic context and guardrails for AI (codeledger.dev)
    2 points by ashmivante 1 day ago | discuss
24. Show HN: Shinobi – 10-second security scanner for developers (github.com)
    2 points by SolidDark 14 days ago | discuss
25. Show HN: I built an audiobook player that syncs with your physical book (earleaf.app)
    1 points by arcadianalpaca about 13 hours ago | 2 comments
26. Show HN: Open Prompt Hub – Don't share code, share intent (news.ycombinator.com)
    1 points by jacomoRodriguez about 11 hours ago | discuss
27. Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for faster VM boots (www.shayon.dev)
    3 points by shayonj about 17 hours ago | discuss
28. Show HN: Live HTML email playground – preview Gmail/Outlook rendering (mailpeek.dev)
    2 points by ashannon 13 days ago | discuss
29. Java 26 is here (hanno.codes)
    265 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 302 comments
30. Claude Shannon: Mathematician, engineer, genius and juggler (2017) (www.juggle.org)
    179 points by xiande04 over 1 year ago | 58 comments
31. An alternative construction of Shannon entropy (rkp.science)
    126 points by rkp8000 over 1 year ago | 11 comments
32. Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine (www.loper-os.org)
    36 points by Kotlopou 2 months ago | 12 comments
33. Resolution Dynamics: Deriving the Fine Structure Constant from Shannon Capacity (zenodo.org)
    11 points by Jascon71 3 months ago | 7 comments
34. Shannon–Hartley Theorem (en.wikipedia.org)
    9 points by handfuloflight 8 months ago | discuss
35. Claude Shannon Watch (www.danecjensen.com)
    7 points by danecjensen 2 months ago | discuss
36. Wine Tasting with Claude Shannon (danco.substack.com)
    4 points by jger15 about 1 year ago | 1 comments
37. Shannon – Autonomous AI Hacker (github.com)
    4 points by charlieirish about 1 month ago | discuss
38. Back to Bits: Extending Shannon's channel capacity to computing (arxiv.org)
    4 points by jetsamflotsam 7 months ago | discuss
39. Markov and Shannon Counted Letters to Build the First Language-Generation Models (2019) (spectrum.ieee.org)
    4 points by Anon84 over 1 year ago | discuss
40. Shannon: Claude Code for Pen Testing: #1 on Github today (github.com)
    3 points by hendler about 1 month ago | 2 comments
41. First Pan Am branded jet in over 30 years departs Shannon (www.rte.ie)
    3 points by austinallegro 9 months ago | discuss
42. Ask HN: If Shannon and Hinton collaborated, what would they build?
    2 points by muragekibicho about 1 year ago | 5 comments
43. NFR Breaking Shannon Entropy with Instance-Specific LSTM,Arithmetic Coding (github.com)
    2 points by philippeantoine 2 months ago | 1 comments
44. Detecting "AI Slop" with Shannon Entropy (Python) (steerlabs.substack.com)
    2 points by steer_dev 2 months ago | 1 comments
45. Shannon: Fast local search for your Claude conversation history (github.com)
    2 points by nberkman 9 months ago | 1 comments
46. MiniVac 601 Educational Computer from Claude Shannon (oldcomputermuseum.com)
    2 points by shrubble almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
47. Shannon–Hartley Theorem (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points by liberian 10 months ago | discuss
48. Applying Shannon's Information Theory to genetics – mutations are not random (www.mdpi.com)
    2 points by utiiiD about 1 year ago | discuss
49. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem (www.researchgate.net)
    2 points by keepamovin over 1 year ago | discuss
50. The intuition behind the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem [video] (www.youtube.com)
    2 points by keepamovin over 1 year ago | discuss
51. Show HN: Shannon Uncontained – generate src for live target, go for the pwn (github.com)
    1 points by _steake 3 months ago | 2 comments
52. Show HN: Shannon Control Unit – Adaptive PI Control for LLM Training (github.com)
    1 points by hunterbown 6 months ago | 1 comments
53. ShannonBase Rapid Engine: Parallel Load and Async Column Read Technical Overview (medium.com)
    1 points by shannon-data-ai 7 months ago | 1 comments
54. Shannon: OSS Autonomous AI Pentester (github.com)
    1 points by wslh about 1 month ago | discuss
55. Nyquist–Shannon Sampling Theorem (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points by blobcode 6 months ago | discuss
56. Art Index in ShannonBase (medium.com)
    1 points by shannon-data-ai 7 months ago | discuss
57. The Mechanization of Meaning: Claude Shannon and Generative AI (www.newcartographies.com)
    1 points by razorburn about 1 year ago | discuss
58. Tech Icons: Claude Shannon (www.youtube.com)
    1 points by jhncls over 1 year ago | discuss
59. AGI Is Mathematically Impossible (3): Kolmogorov Complexity
    41 points by ICBTheory 8 months ago | 80 comments