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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 :)

UptimeRobot featured my journey from Telecom to GenAI

https://uptimerobot.com/blog/community-spotlight-ambuj-kumar-tripathi/
1•ambujkt•1m ago•0 comments

Everybody Is a Prof Now

https://gedankenexperiments.com/Leif/Everybody_is_a_prof_now.html
1•yz-exodao•2m ago•0 comments

How to copy equations from Grok to word without losing formatting [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wj2Mm2Vh4k
2•quysala12•4m ago•0 comments

Our health check was green for fifty days while every download failed

https://cliplatch.com/blog/fifty-days-of-silent-failure
1•doodoolove•5m ago•0 comments

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/20/1142571/ai-consciousness-debate-trap/
1•Gooblebrai•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Squid Pay – Financial infrastructure for autonomous AI agents

https://www.squidpay.dev/
1•horatiucode•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Payluck – a startup directory where luck decides your discount

https://payluck.lol/
1•knoku•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why does $50M buy just 10% productivity for Enterprises?

1•milanspeaks•16m ago•0 comments

ITER is a showcase,for the drawbacks of fusion energy(2018)

https://thebulletin.org/2018/02/iter-is-a-showcase-for-the-drawbacks-of-fusion-energy/
1•o4c•18m ago•0 comments

I don't think AI is a bubble

https://honnibal.dev/blog/ai-bubble
1•Fazel94•23m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 2Day – Aesthetic live widgets studio for Notion and web dashboards

https://2day.jpgdic.com/
1•pgjeon•26m ago•0 comments

Stripe Buys A.I. Startup OpenRouter for $7.5B

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/business/stripe-openrouter-ai.html
2•01-_-•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Nowlert – self-hosted infrastructure alerts from SMTP, HTTP and Redfish

https://github.com/Theriark/nowlert-ce
3•theriark•30m ago•0 comments

Anthropic Plans to Change Data Retention Policy for Advanced AI

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/anthropic-plans-to-change-data-retention-polic...
3•tosh•31m ago•0 comments

BigLake's Iceberg REST Catalog

https://olake.io/blog/biglake-iceberg-rest-catalog-olake-go-setup/
14•advaita_datazip•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Can you tell Wodehouse from a model imitating Wodehouse?

https://voxoria.ai/ai-or-not-text/
2•sanj001•34m ago•0 comments

Study: Subtle white light changes make indoor rooms feel cooler or warmer

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/subtle-white-light-changes-make-indoor-rooms-feel-cooler-...
2•giuliomagnifico•34m ago•0 comments

Kopi Luwak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak
2•thunderbong•37m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you need Google ads help?

4•cosbgn•37m ago•0 comments

The day the business started deploying to prod

https://annampeter.substack.com/p/the-day-the-business-started-deploying
2•codebyauser•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grok-ultracode – standing ultracode for Grok Build CLI

https://github.com/malakhov-dmitrii/grok-ultracode
2•cskeleto•43m ago•0 comments

In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You (2012 but Relevant Again)

https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/
2•hagbard_c•44m ago•1 comments

ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning

https://0ver.org/
3•vladde•45m ago•0 comments

White House tech strategy leaves open-weight AI off its critical list

https://thenextweb.com/news/white-house-strategy-open-weight-ai-critical-technology-list
2•LYFMail•45m ago•0 comments

Domain Name Journal

https://www.dnjournal.com/index.htm
3•orf•45m ago•0 comments

Code quality and security tooling was built around the repo and that's breaking

https://blog.codacy.com/teams-built-quality-and-security-infrastructure-around-the-repository-and...
2•claudiacsf•46m ago•1 comments

Hong Kong convicts two Tiananmen vigil activists of inciting subversion

https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260821-the-hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-activists-convict...
3•pera•46m ago•0 comments

Rust 1.98.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/Rust-1.98.0/
2•HieronymusBosch•50m ago•1 comments

Safety Issues and an Accident Delayed Linde's Green Hydrogen Plant for Years

https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/safety-issues-and-an-accident-delayed-lindes-green-hydro...
1•hannob•51m ago•0 comments

The smell of rain: how Aussie scientists invented a new word in 1964

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2015/March/the-smell-of-rain-how-our-scientists-invente...
4•fanf2•52m ago•0 comments