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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 :)

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https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/08/04/minimum-wages-in-europe-purchasing-power-versus-pay-...
1•Markoff•46s ago•0 comments

A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/10/a-mysterious-buying-spree-is-unsettling-europe...
1•ohaodha•2m ago•0 comments

Rich Text Editing Innovations in Bike

https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/bike-rich-text/
1•summarity•3m ago•0 comments

Prepare yourself tonight and do not miss the eclipse

https://sunsetatlas.ch/?lat=50.84674&lng=4.35249&date=08-12&lang=fr&mode=eclipse
1•damienmeur•7m ago•1 comments

Making More NPM Packages Work with JsDelivr ESM Mode

https://www.jsdelivr.com/blog/making-more-npm-packages-work-with-jsdelivr-esm/
1•jimaek•7m ago•0 comments

I Benchmarked Local LLMs on the Laptop I Have

https://mamonas.dev/posts/local-llms-on-the-laptop-i-already-have/
1•konmam•10m ago•0 comments

CachyOS August 2026 Release Preps for Upcoming Server Edition

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-August-2026
1•Bender•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Working on gym weight progress calculator

https://gymcalc.no/
1•xtremi•16m ago•0 comments

The Computer Graphics Lab Archive of the New York Institute of Technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu8Z9UqGvYI
1•oldnetguy•17m ago•0 comments

Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/flock-cameras-can-track-every-car-in-america-police-love-th...
1•sbulaev•18m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT Knows Who It'll Recommend Before It Searches

https://suganthan.com/blog/chatgpt-decides-before-it-searches/
2•aworks•18m ago•0 comments

Startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/10/1141511/these-startups-are-chasing-the-next-big-thing...
1•joozio•22m ago•0 comments

Möbius Strips and Differential Equations

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/monodromy
1•mbustamanter•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mangudai – Agentless attack surface manager for small tech teams

https://github.com/oktaybilge1/mangudai-overview
1•mangudai•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is Traditional SaaS Dying?

2•vibe_that_works•29m ago•0 comments

Meta's new open-weight model targets local agentic AI

https://twitter.com/finkd/status/2086754845218726027
8•bakigul•30m ago•0 comments

China doesn't need to beat US AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXA77wLF678
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https://github.com/kylehuirevvision/databricks-cost-optimizer
1•kylehui818•31m ago•0 comments

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https://lucas.dohmen.io/posts/2026/08/09/rails-is-done/
5•birdculture•32m ago•1 comments

The OpenAI and Hugging Face breach story told from the perspective of the AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4IDWjfOZc
1•cnatod•32m ago•0 comments

Private Equity Is Stuck with 33,575 Unsold Businesses

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/business/private-equity-unsold-businesses.html
2•donohoe•33m ago•1 comments

Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvw8vmmgrwo
1•blondie9x•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Game Engine with its own IDE and scripting language

1•am-gm•35m ago•0 comments

Gaussian Splat in GTA: San Andreas [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-TMMVBMu6Q
1•carlos-menezes•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: r/place for coding agents, the longer it stays up, the more you keep

https://overwrite.place/
1•mazzystar•37m ago•0 comments

How to Lie with Benchmarks

https://blog.eterm.uk/2026/08/07/how-to-lie-with-benchmarks
2•eterm•38m ago•0 comments

Why night owls are more intelligent

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886909002177
1•zainhsn•40m ago•0 comments

Data Flow Mapping: Why Most Data Maps Are Out of Date

https://scrutora.com/blog/data-flow-mapping-why-manual-maps-fail
1•vimaldwivedi86•40m ago•0 comments

Databricks Data Mesh Best Practices: A Practical Implementation Guide

https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-data-mesh-best-practices-a-practical-implementa...
1•protmaks•41m ago•0 comments

Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record

https://www.gtai.de/en/meta/press/germany-sets-new-six-month-start-up-record-2012048
1•eigenspace•42m ago•0 comments