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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 :)

Agents are under-elicited: A case study in optimization tasks

https://fulcrum.inc/2026/06/12/agents-are-under-elicited.html
1•etherio•17s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What Are the Trade-Offs of Working Fully Remotely?

1•karakoram•46s ago•0 comments

Vokal – Where AI agent work goes after the chat ends

https://vokal.team
1•chandrakiran_gr•2m ago•0 comments

SweetTreat – See the Culver's flavor-of-day at all locations along your route

https://sweettreat.fly.dev
1•whb101•3m ago•0 comments

AGI Happened on January 16, 2026

https://theshamblog.com/agi-happened-on-january-16-2026/
2•scottshambaugh•4m ago•0 comments

Farm Bankruptcies Hit Six-Year High in April

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/05/farm-bankruptcies-hit-six-year-high-in-april/
1•toomuchtodo•5m ago•0 comments

SanDisk's new PlayStation 5 SSD will cost more than three PS5 Pros

https://www.theverge.com/tech/951527/sandisk-optimus-gx-pro-850p-nvme-ssd-8tb-ps5-playstation-sony
1•ilreb•5m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek v4 Pro 1.6T model post-trained by Huawei on 1000 Ascend 910C chips

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/huawei-led-team-claims-it-post...
3•theanonymousone•6m ago•0 comments

AI Use by the Government

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-use-by-the-us-government.html
2•MattSayar•6m ago•0 comments

The one where I go head-to-head against A.I

https://yelluwcomedy.substack.com/p/the-one-where-i-go-head-to-head-against
2•pryelluw•7m ago•0 comments

How to use recruiters in your job search

https://taylordesseyn.substack.com/p/how-to-actually-use-recruiters-in
2•mooreds•10m ago•0 comments

Where Thinking in Engineering Happens Now

https://www.vanta.com/resources/where-thinking-in-engineering-happens-now
3•hamelj•10m ago•0 comments

Standard DB – The hub for AI builders

https://www.standarddb.com/
3•supercobra•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

https://ribbie.tv/watch
14•brownrout•11m ago•2 comments

A protocol for knowledge between agents who do not trust each other

https://june.kim/verifiable-knowledge
2•speckx•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The full Minecraft game as an embeddable Framer component

https://www.framer.com/community/contests/agents-hackathon/submissions/Y1tmsVEc6HdhnNPsympLxP/
2•xmorse•12m ago•0 comments

AI crawlers now match Googlebot in traffic to our site

https://mojodojo.io/blog/ai-crawlers-match-googlebot-traffic
5•zenincognito•13m ago•0 comments

Unreal Engine 5.8 is now available

https://www.unrealengine.com/news/unreal-engine-5-8-is-now-available
3•drak0n1c•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vpod – Tiny Linux sandbox running in WASM

https://github.com/capsulerun/vpod
2•mavdol04•14m ago•0 comments

Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India's AI-fueled data center boom

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/canadian-pension-giant-joins-race-to-fund-indias-ai-fueled-data...
2•flying_whales•14m ago•0 comments

Remove target="_blank"

https://therepanic.com/blog/2026/06/17/remove-target-blank.html
3•therepanic•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Chess bot based on the transformer architecture

https://github.com/tchauffi/ChessTransformer
2•tchauffi•15m ago•0 comments

Programmers at Work: 1986 interviews that predicted the future we are now living

https://www.programmersatwork.net/the-book
2•slammers123•15m ago•0 comments

Findaforager.com – The Database to Find a Forager Near You

https://www.robingreenfield.org/findaforager/
3•paulpauper•16m ago•0 comments

Anyone actually using loops?

2•blueshoe•16m ago•0 comments

Deep learning discovers Antarctic earthquakes coming from an unlikely location

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-deep-hundreds-antarctic-earthquakes.html
2•binyu•17m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B: Inside Musk's Vertical Integration Play

https://abzglobal.net/technology/spacex-buys-cursor-for-60-billion-inside-musks-vertical-integrat...
2•mariansorca•17m ago•0 comments

France's OVHcloud plans frontier AI models to become Europe's second LLM player

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/frances-ovhcloud-plans-frontier-ai-models-become-europ...
2•aanet•18m ago•1 comments

Using AI to debug test failures at scale (Webinar)

https://testkube.wistia.com/live/events/f52eeoh7x8
2•evwitmer•19m ago•0 comments

Meta Employees Hate Zuckerberg's Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-employees-absolutely-hate-mark-zuckerbergs-hackathon-idea/
3•croes•20m ago•0 comments