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Show HN: Syneva – An AI Chatbot Ported to a Kids' Tile-Based Limited Game Engine

https://sprig.hackclub.com/share/VzO62YQXBGOpcbj7xusB
2•kuberwastaken•1y ago

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kuberwastaken•1y ago
I made SYNEVA as a part of my fun-research repo while I learn about LLMs at https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/MiniLMs

I came across Sprig while Scrolling through Hack Club, it's a Javascript game engine that's like Scratch's older brother (fun fact, it's partially made by Scratch's creator too) but has it's own set of unique limitations because it runs on a custom hardware.

All sprites need to be made in Bitmap, you have to use single character variable names but most importantly, you can only use 8 characters to control the "game".

I had to make a virtual keyboard implementation (which was awful btw) using WASD to navigate keyboard, K to select and I to send the message.

also, it doesn't have any audio support and uses an event sequencer to get any music into it (got around it by making https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/Sprig-Music-Maker that converts midis to it)

SYNEVA is a rule based chatbot, so not technically AI but hey, still pretty fun and really cool to use (I also made it understand slang and some brainrot, so try that out too lol)

Hope you enjoy it :)

Jamglue.com – A Forgotten Website, Revived

https://jamglue.com/
1•hacksore•1m ago•1 comments

Tesla and others begin record vehicle recall in China

https://www.reuters.com/world/tesla-fix-software-millions-china-made-imported-evs-china-2026-08-21/
3•diggernet•3m ago•0 comments

Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha

https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/electric-shock-gloves-already-in-use-by-pol...
2•rendx•4m ago•0 comments

Detexify Got Vibed

https://detexify.kirelabs.org/
2•ks2048•4m ago•1 comments

A Call for Action: The "Leiden Declaration on AI and Math"

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202608/noti3386/noti3386.html
3•pykello•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Kinodesk – Unlimited Remote Desktop Sharing

https://kinodesk.net/
2•AutomationGoat•9m ago•0 comments

The Kill Chain Has a Thinking Problem

https://foxandlion.pub/analysis/the-kill-chain-has-a-thinking-problem
5•asdfwebdf•11m ago•0 comments

Ubuntu to soon have more WSL users than native Linux users

https://itsfoss.com/news/canonical-wsl-growth/
3•notRobot•14m ago•0 comments

Doom, in a Terminal

https://twitter.com/ParsaKhaz/status/2090227125341286856
3•parsak•14m ago•0 comments

Minecraft, in a Terminal

https://twitter.com/ParsaKhaz/status/2090831600753995880
3•parsak•15m ago•0 comments

Basics of Futexes (2018)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/basics-of-futexes/
2•cassepipe•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ChickenButt a Native GTK Chat Client for Ollama on Linux

https://www.chickenbutt.dev/
2•HimTortons•18m ago•1 comments

Futuristic 'hologram' tech promises ultra-realistic human telepresence (2018)

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/futuristic-hologram-tech-promises-ultra-realistic-human-tele...
4•peter_d_sherman•18m ago•1 comments

Replacing 223-node agent graph with a single OSS LLM

https://www.netic.ai/blog/replacing-node-agent-graph-with-open-source-llm
2•yester01•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

https://ozbrain.com
6•dariusmonsef•21m ago•1 comments

Gutterwire is a new kind of news "excerpt aggregator"

https://www.gutterwire.com/
2•jeffgoldblumle•21m ago•0 comments

Modplay by Mark J Cox

https://esoom.com/mark/dev/modplay.html
2•bananaboy•24m ago•0 comments

Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after opposition to interference

https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-censorship-media-d42affb0c17fef31c6089645c8dbbe70
7•petethomas•27m ago•0 comments

Turn Claude Code into a 24/7 Agent

https://github.com/gtapps/claude-code-hermit/
2•gtapps•27m ago•1 comments

A look at CrossPoint e-reader firmware

https://lwn.net/Articles/1087635/
3•pykello•27m ago•0 comments

AI Building Exoskeletons – Keeping Creative Inspiration

https://johnoestmannmusic.com/ai-building-exoskeletons/
2•soundworlds•33m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What do you care about the most at this moment in time?

3•0sake_rs•35m ago•3 comments

Rose-9?

https://belkadan.com/blog/2026/08/ROSE-9/
2•frizlab•36m ago•0 comments

Scammers built a fake Zoom call from real videos of Singapore leaders

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/zoom-scam-5-million-analysis-full-video-6332621
2•sohkamyung•38m ago•0 comments

ZDOS – a bootable Linux distro and bare-metal Zlang runtime URL

https://github.com/high-cde/ZDOS
1•High-cde•39m ago•0 comments

Disney will drop medical insurance for some employees' spouses

https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-spouse-healthcare-coverage-employee-benefits-2026-8
5•petethomas•42m ago•0 comments

You Shouldn't Exist

https://www.marcnitzsche.de/you-shouldnt-exist/
3•mrccc•43m ago•1 comments

The Icelandic Phallological Museum: The world's only penis museum

https://www.phallus.is/
1•NaOH•43m ago•0 comments

The Scales Can't Fall from Our Eyes Fast Enough

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/opinion/trump-maga-immigration-woke-democrats.html
3•whack•50m ago•0 comments

Jock, a Nock Combinator Language

https://jock.is/
2•MrBuddyCasino•51m ago•0 comments