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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 :)

Show HN: An Universal Linux Application Uninstaller

https://github.com/swadhinbiswas/veet
1•0xER•45s ago•0 comments

A leaked Composio key returned live Gmail, GitHub and CircleCI tokens

https://www.cyera.com/research/the-hidden-attack-surface-of-agentic-ai-securing-ai-agent-integrat...
1•shimi12•2m ago•0 comments

Want things to go well? Plan like a defensive pessimist

https://psyche.co/guides/want-things-to-go-well-plan-like-a-defensive-pessimist
1•vinhnx•5m ago•0 comments

A Jupyter kernel for C++ running in the Web browser (2025)

https://blog.jupyter.org/c-in-jupyter-interpreting-c-in-the-web-c9d93542f20b
1•theanonymousone•7m ago•0 comments

How to Overcome Your Brain's Fixation on Bad Things (2020)

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_overcome_your_brains_fixation_on_bad_things
1•vinhnx•8m ago•0 comments

Big tech meets Milton Friedman

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/11/2026/big-tech-meets-milton-friedman
1•andsoitis•11m ago•0 comments

Apple tests Chinese memory chips

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/09/2026/apple-tests-chinese-memory-chips
1•andsoitis•12m ago•0 comments

Positive Mindset, Prepare for the Worst

https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/15/positive-mindset-prepare-for-the-worst/
1•vinhnx•13m ago•0 comments

Google doesn't need the LLM crown

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/07/2026/google-doesnt-need-the-llm-crown
1•andsoitis•14m ago•0 comments

Non-coder –> Vibe coder -> Manual coder

https://beachfront.bearblog.dev/non-coder-vibe-coder-manual-coder/
1•Gecko4072•18m ago•0 comments

BlackBerry: From phone dinosaur to tech champion

https://www.ft.com/content/a026e094-7017-4ff8-8344-213573e973ed
1•thm•18m ago•0 comments

Qualtix: Model-backed stock research platform

https://www.qualtix.app/
1•Sharanxxxx•21m ago•0 comments

Taking Java from small to big with JBang

https://sombriks.com.br/blog/0095-java-small-to-big-with-jbang/
1•theanonymousone•22m ago•0 comments

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2•xnslx•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Side Out, a Multiplayer Survival Pong

https://antics.gg/world/side-out-94df7d
2•eric_khun•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Spread – Real-Time New Zealand Supermarket Data via API and MCP

https://spread.butterup.app/
1•geesus•27m ago•0 comments

The rise of air-conditioned clothing

https://www.ft.com/content/d98a862c-2483-4781-a26c-78e9af7e9c92
1•tosh•28m ago•1 comments

Outperforming cuBLAS on NVFP4

https://cudaforfun.substack.com/p/outperforming-cublas-on-nvfp4
1•tosh•32m ago•0 comments

Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers

https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-boyfriend-ban-bytedance-doubao/
1•fragmede•37m ago•0 comments

Grok –.grok?

https://sslog.dpdns.org/grok-grok.html
1•Shaurya_Sharma•40m ago•0 comments

Optimal Ask

https://blog.lukesalamone.com/posts/optimal-ask/
1•salamo•42m ago•0 comments

Dario Amodei on Regulation

https://twitter.com/darioamodei/status/2088758816376807762
1•tosh•43m ago•0 comments

Health benefits of Tai Chi

https://www.health.harvard.edu/exercise-and-fitness/the-health-benefits-of-tai-chi
1•helloplanets•44m ago•0 comments

Tokencompress A sub-2ms Go CLI and MCP sidecar that prunes AI agent tool context

https://github.com/dburnett11155-rgb/Tokencompress
2•ProffessorD•45m ago•0 comments

(LFE:Lisp Flavoured Erlang)

https://lfe.io/
1•giancarlostoro•47m ago•0 comments

ESP32-CYD-Based-Image-Fetcher Mini Project

https://github.com/turtushig22-blip/ESP32-2432S028-based-Image-fetcher
1•turtushig22•49m ago•1 comments

What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI

https://snarky.ca/whats-missing-to-have-reproducible-builds-on-pypi/
1•Ravencentric•52m ago•0 comments

Why Windows Is Losing Gamers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2grg4R4fmGs
1•cable2600•54m ago•1 comments

RISC-V: What Matters

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/risc-v-what-really-matters-and-what
1•signa11•54m ago•0 comments

The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/08/12/the-us-forgot-the-lessons-of-iraq-now-its-despe...
32•hebelehubele•55m ago•7 comments