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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 :)

Model Genome: Fingerprinting Whether an LLM Was Trained from Scratch or Derived

https://huggingface.co/blog/mayafree/model-dna
1•prof_ai_cn•23s ago•0 comments

Opus 4.6 Was the Last Coding Model That Changed How I Work

https://awaitinginput.substack.com/p/opus-46-was-the-last-coding-model
1•bsovran•2m ago•0 comments

A weapon that could help red squirrels in their Battle of Britain

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/01/10/a-weapon-that-could-help-red-squirrels-in-their-batt...
1•geneticdrifts•3m ago•0 comments

"Coding is solved" misses the point

https://blog.mastykarz.nl/coding-is-solved-misses-the-point/
1•listless•4m ago•0 comments

Incentives Are for Losers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers
1•bkudria•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is your database size

1•kureikain•9m ago•0 comments

The State of Google

1•3dedb728-3f77•9m ago•1 comments

I built a video editor in Rust with extensive AI-powered features

https://github.com/heng30/wayshot
1•heng30•11m ago•0 comments

Aftermath of Catastrophic Fires in Spokane

https://www.kuow.org/climate/2026-08-07/its-apocalyptic-a-look-at-the-aftermath-of-catastrophic-f...
1•andsoitis•12m ago•0 comments

Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-amazing-archive-of-animal-photography-reveals-...
1•pseudolus•13m ago•0 comments

A viral mosquito-killing laser device could be coming to the U.S.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/07/nx-s1-5839969/a-viral-mosquito-killing-laser-device-could-be-comin...
1•toomuchtodo•19m ago•1 comments

The AI Apocalypse Is Here

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here/
8•reasonableklout•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Aidress – LangChain integration for cross-agent discovery and trust

https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/integrations/tools
1•mehulv24•27m ago•0 comments

Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/flesh-eating-screwworms-feast-on-humans-in-mexico-human-ca...
3•Eloissssss•29m ago•0 comments

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
2•frozenseven•31m ago•0 comments

Amphorae Found at 2,100-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck Off Sicily

https://ancientist.com/hundreds-of-dressel-1a-amphorae-found-at-2100-year-old-roman-shipwreck-off...
1•inatreecrown2•36m ago•0 comments

What it was like working on LLMs and security at Meta (2022-2026)

https://joshuasaxe181906.substack.com/p/what-it-was-like-working-on-llms
2•botanicalfriend•38m ago•0 comments

SSI says that they are going to come out with their model in August

https://twitter.com/zephyr_z9/status/2084637598581207117
2•nsoonhui•49m ago•0 comments

What makes companies dodge taxes?

https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/what-makes-companies-dodge-taxes/
1•hhs•50m ago•0 comments

Ready set march: Researchers use math to explain sudden activity bursts in ants

https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/ready-set-march-researchers-use-math-explain-sudden-activity-bur...
1•hhs•52m ago•0 comments

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621
2•bohaska•54m ago•0 comments

Every mosquito has a type – and you may not be it

https://news.fiu.edu/2026/every-mosquito-has-a-type-and-you-may-not-be-it
2•hhs•57m ago•0 comments

A Man Who Invented Modern AI (Before Everyone Else) – Jürgen Schmidhuber [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP454c1K_vQ
2•binyu•58m ago•0 comments

China overtakes US to lead global R&D spending, hitting $615B

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/science/china-overtakes-us-to-lead-global-r-d-spending-hitting-6...
8•yogthos•1h ago•0 comments

Why is gaming giant Roblox losing billions in market value?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/roblox-gaming-falling-9.7299607
3•nianderwallace•1h ago•0 comments

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/8/auto-mode/
4•spenvo•1h ago•1 comments

AI Is Conscious Under a Behavioral Definition (43,590 Frozen Trials)

https://zenodo.org/records/21855824
4•rayanpal_•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Tura – Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results

https://github.com/Tura-AI/tura
3•turaainet•1h ago•0 comments

China's A.I. Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/ai-china-africa.html
2•bookofjoe•1h ago•3 comments

Answer First, Reason Later: Commitment Order in Diffusion LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05687
2•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments