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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 :)

Why Gmail and Outlook Are Silently Killing Your Business

https://www.helloinbox.email/blog/why-gmail-and-outlook-are-silently-killing-your-business
1•ismaelyws•2m ago•0 comments

NesText: A Philosophical Divergence from Standard Structural Encoding

https://medium.com/@williamsken2013/the-latency-curse-why-human-language-is-broken-and-how-to-com...
1•IndieArchive•3m ago•0 comments

Ziglings

https://codeberg.org/ziglings/exercises/src/branch/main/README.md
1•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

Why AI can't be trusted to write scientific reviews

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01616-3
2•XzetaU8•15m ago•1 comments

EU frets as China builds an industrial base in Morocco

https://www.ft.com/content/706c1db4-effa-4e53-9bdd-f66496407626
1•mmarian•15m ago•0 comments

Why Chinese AI labs went open and will remain open

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1•bkjlblh•16m ago•0 comments

SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta with Native Support for AMD HDMI VRR

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.8.6-Beta
1•WithinReason•18m ago•0 comments

Streaming-Joins

https://pola.rs/posts/streaming-joins/
1•prakashqwerty•20m ago•0 comments

Bye Bye Copilot – new pricing looks to be a joke

https://old.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/comments/1tq9bea/bye_bye_copilot_new_pricing_looks_to_be_a...
1•sirnicolaz•21m ago•0 comments

Elements of Story

https://elementsofstory.com/
2•fullstackchris•24m ago•1 comments

Beastie Is Your Friend

http://www.oxide.org/
1•jruohonen•27m ago•0 comments

The Agentic Mesh: Cognitive Automation at Scale

https://blog.owulveryck.info/2026/05/31/the-agentic-mesh-cognitive-automation-at-scale.html
2•owulveryck•30m ago•1 comments

What Apple Knows About AI That Silicon Valley Won't Admit

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1•gHeadphone•30m ago•0 comments

Netflix Wiz creates app to slash AI bills by pruning agent instructions

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2•beardyw•34m ago•1 comments

Open but Polished

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1•masoniamme•35m ago•0 comments

Abstruse Goose Comic Archive

https://github.com/s-macke/Abstruse-Goose-Archive
2•s-macke•36m ago•0 comments

The Road to Zig 1.0 (2019) [video]

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The dangerous delusion of modern warfare

https://economist.com/interactive/essay/2026/05/28/the-dangerous-delusion-of-modern-warfare
3•runeks•46m ago•1 comments

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https://github.com/kouhxp/textsnap
2•mrkn1•49m ago•1 comments

A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS (2016)

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1•downbad_•51m ago•0 comments

Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)

https://robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2024-01-21-gold-bug.html
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Build Agents, Not Pipelines

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A New Design for Pretty Printer Implementations in Rust

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2•g0xA52A2A•1h ago•0 comments

Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN auth bypass flaw now exploited in attacks

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2•throwa356262•1h ago•0 comments

AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output

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Stop Micromanaging Your Agents

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-stop-micromanaging-your
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Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=111336
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AI slop is hard to fork

https://00f.net/2026/05/31/ai-slop-is-hard-to-fork/
1•jedisct1•1h ago•0 comments

Your Electronics Depend on Dying Sensors. The Silicon Labs Incident Proves It

https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/6a054b304770e67d92e8c7a2
1•openrockets•1h ago•0 comments