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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•8mo ago

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kuberwastaken•8mo 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 :)

The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly

https://buildsoftwaresystems.com/post/guide-to-execution-environments/
1•ThierryBuilds•1m ago•0 comments

I Made Adobe CC Installers Work on Linux

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1qdgd73/i_made_adobe_cc_installers_work_on_linux_p...
1•XzetaU8•4m ago•0 comments

Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/opening-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/
2•notmine1337•5m ago•1 comments

How WhatsApp Took over the Global Conversation

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-whatsapp-took-over-the-global-conversation
1•petethomas•7m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL in Gleam with pog, squirrel, and cigogne

https://nulltree.xyz/articles/basic-postgres-setup-in-gleam/
1•todsacerdoti•14m ago•0 comments

Some 20-sided dice from Ptolemaic Egypt (ca.140BC)

https://mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/115770670004578550
1•aebtebeten•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to work with Claude Agent SDK durability?

1•spacemnstr42069•15m ago•0 comments

Fake It – Guess the Imposter

https://fakeitgame.com
1•SFGWisdow•19m ago•1 comments

Catching API regressions with snapshot testing

https://kreya.app/blog/api-snapshot-testing/
2•CommonGuy•21m ago•0 comments

pf: Make af-to less magical

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260116085115
2•defrost•21m ago•0 comments

Personal Intelligence: Connecting Gemini to Google Apps

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/personal-intelligence/
1•thunderbong•22m ago•0 comments

I was a top 0.01% Cursor user. Here's why I switched to Claude Code 2.0

https://blog.silennai.com/claude-code
2•Areibman•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why do we wait for PR to review obvious slop

1•moshetanzer•23m ago•0 comments

Windows? Linux? Browser? Same Executable

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/15/windows-linux-browser-same-executable/
1•birdculture•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GitHub – Burn – Rust tensor library and deep learning framework

https://github.com/tracel-ai/burn
1•criexe•27m ago•0 comments

ACX 2025 prediction contest retrospective

https://entropicthoughts.com/acx-2025-prediction-contest-retrospective
2•kqr•28m ago•0 comments

Software Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_crisis
1•tin7in•30m ago•0 comments

Life Levels – Make choices and see your life in 15 years

https://mathgameshero.com/life-levels/
1•absurdwebsite•36m ago•1 comments

How the New Yorker Became Irrelevant

https://www.persuasion.community/p/how-the-new-yorker-lost-its-soul
2•simonebrunozzi•41m ago•0 comments

What does it mean to be a programming language, anyhow? (2021) [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3480947
1•hun3•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SharpSkill- Realign markets needs and developers

https://sharpskill.fr/en
1•MakeMilk•43m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to keep your product from fading into obscurity

1•alexpham14•46m ago•0 comments

California Gold Smelt [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f1QdvAl4YKY
2•thunderbong•47m ago•0 comments

You Don't Need an ORM

https://codebeameurope.com/talks/you-don-t-need-an-orm/
3•amalinovic•48m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Control center for Claude Code with plan review and parallel agents

https://www.heymedusa.net/
2•benodiwal•50m ago•0 comments

Bettershot an OSS Alternative of Cleanshot

https://github.com/KartikLabhshetwar/better-shot
2•kartik017•53m ago•0 comments

The Great Online Game

https://www.notboring.co/p/the-great-online-game
2•simonebrunozzi•56m ago•0 comments

AI-bots shall eat my docs

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-server-gazette-issue-11-ai-bots-shall-eat-my-docs/75029
2•DanieleProcida•58m ago•1 comments

59% of Republicans favor use of force immigration raids despite risk of deaths

https://www.reuters.com/world/republicans-split-trumps-aggressive-immigration-crackdown-reutersip...
3•willmarch•58m ago•3 comments

Support for C++26 Reflection has been merged into GCC trunk

https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=4b0e94b394fa38cdc3431f3cfb333b85373bd948
3•pjmlp•59m ago•0 comments