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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 :)

Trace Institute

https://traceinstitute.org/
1•mpartel•1m ago•0 comments

Open source HW equivalence checking tool at both RTL and gate level

https://github.com/keplertech/kepler-formal
1•nanocoh•2m ago•1 comments

California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/california-food-labels-sell-by.html
2•randycupertino•4m ago•0 comments

Spherical Gear [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bRoFs6n_Gg
1•firephox•4m ago•0 comments

Snapcompact: Rendering context as pixel-font bitmaps cuts input cost 3x

https://blog.can.ac/2026/06/10/snapcompact/
1•oxedom•7m ago•0 comments

Write Code, Not Specs

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/07/04/write-code-not-specs.html
1•Tomte•7m ago•0 comments

Takeaways from "On Writing Well"

https://www.thetrueengineer.com/p/takeaways-from-on-writing-well
2•adletbalzhanov•12m ago•0 comments

China's Current Five-Year Plan to Save Jobs from A.I

https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20260701/china-ai-jobs-birthright-hormuz/
3•tom2026hn•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hacker-News Buddies

2•freakynit•14m ago•1 comments

Happy Independence Day

3•GauntletWizard•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open Kioku – local evidence layer for AI coding agents

https://github.com/shivyadavus/open-kioku
1•shivyadavus•18m ago•0 comments

Wordgard Release 0.1

https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/wordgard-0.1.html
1•birdculture•18m ago•0 comments

Tom Kean got months of paid sick leave – after voting against it for others

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/04/tom-kean-jr-sick-leave-mental-health-depres...
2•petee•19m ago•0 comments

'All men are created equal': America has lost its values. It's time to go back

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/04/250-years-declaration-of-independence
1•hkhn•22m ago•0 comments

CTOP – Terminal Pane for Monitoring AI Agents

https://github.com/aakashadesara/ctop
3•aakashadesara•23m ago•3 comments

Happy 250th Birthday, America

https://werd.io/happy-250th-birthday-america/
1•benwerd•25m ago•0 comments

Murdoku – Murder mystery meets Sudoku

https://murdoku.com/play/
2•hyperman1•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Text to Favicon

https://favicon.run/text-favicon
1•struy•27m ago•0 comments

Tech Fines Tracker

https://proton.me/tech-fines-tracker
2•democracy•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VideoPicAI – Create Videos and Images with AI Magic

https://videopicai.com/
1•struy•28m ago•0 comments

Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?

2•kingleopold•29m ago•1 comments

China Is Devastating the Last Stronghold of German Industry

https://www.wsj.com/economy/china-is-devastating-the-last-stronghold-of-german-industry-c7a98514
5•JumpCrisscross•30m ago•0 comments

The New MCP Specification: What Security Teams Must Prepare For

https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/new-mcp-specification-security-teams-must-prepare
2•mooreds•31m ago•0 comments

Are MAGA and MAHA Heading for Divorce

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/maha-maga-alliance-fracture-robert-kenned...
2•maxerickson•33m ago•0 comments

How to benchmark persistent repo memory for coding agents

https://autoloops.ai/greplica/blog/benchmarking-greplica/
2•kushalpatil07•34m ago•1 comments

Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/74066
19•chatmasta•34m ago•6 comments

How working memory could give rise to consciousness

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-working-memory-could-give-rise-to-consciousness/
6•bookofjoe•35m ago•9 comments

A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/a-martian-rock-has-lots-of-carbon-on-it-and-its-not-clear...
4•Brajeshwar•38m ago•0 comments

Warner bill would create federally vetted list for secure, trustworthy AI agents

https://cyberscoop.com/ai-agent-act-senate-draft-bill-mark-warner/
3•softwaredoug•38m ago•1 comments

One engine, many tools – Introducing Rubydex

https://railsatscale.com/2026-05-12-one-engine-many-tools/
1•frou_dh•42m ago•0 comments