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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: Linear Chess – Normal Chess, on a 1D board

https://youbee.cloud/chess/chess.html
1•MarcellusDrum•3m ago•0 comments

You Were Never Declaring State. You Were Observing by Hand

https://webframp.com/posts/you-were-never-declaring-state/
1•nickstinemates•4m ago•0 comments

I just sequenced a human genome to 30× coverage at home

https://twitter.com/SethSHowes/status/2058835208586362913
1•MrBuddyCasino•5m ago•0 comments

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout
1•Cider9986•6m ago•0 comments

Bursting My AI Bubble

https://indecisiorama.bearblog.dev/bursting-my-ai-bubble/
2•wrxd•6m ago•0 comments

Exit IP fingerprinting between VPN servers

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/exit-ip-fingerprinting-between-vpn-servers
1•Cider9986•6m ago•0 comments

Alexander Horned Sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_horned_sphere
1•thunderbong•8m ago•0 comments

AI Evaluation Is Biased – By Design

https://alokit.substack.com/p/your-ai-evaluation-is-biased-by-design
1•avikalp•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Browser-based Glider Sim

https://glider.benedictshegog.xyz/
1•bensg•12m ago•0 comments

S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure?

1•yanbinette•12m ago•2 comments

Michael Phelps on finding purpose beyond the pool

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/sport/michael-phelps-mental-health-water-safety
1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

Big university system is embracing AI. Students/faculty aren't all on board

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5772820
1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A web to see nearby TFL trains

https://nexttrain.london
1•mgranados•13m ago•0 comments

What ClickHouse learned from a year of coding with AI agents

https://thenewstack.io/clickhouse-ai-coding-agents/
1•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers

https://www.hackyexperiments.com/blog/the-revenge-of-the-measurers
1•bilater•16m ago•0 comments

Google facing court for retaliation against Gaza whistleblower

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/05/20/google-court-retaliation-gaza-whistleblower/
1•lovegrenoble•17m ago•0 comments

Hacker News RSS

https://hnrss.github.io/
1•mooreds•18m ago•0 comments

StubZero: $148,337 RCE in Google Cloud Production

https://brutecat.com/articles/google-cloud-rce/
1•Cider9986•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is it just me or has Gemini enshittified in the last three weeks?

1•EvanMcCormick•20m ago•1 comments

Huawei announced it will have a 1.4nm equivalent density process by 2031

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/huawei-looks-to-1-4nm-by-2031-2026-05/
1•yogthos•20m ago•0 comments

Pouta.dev – Open-Source Block Editor CMS for Astro, Next.js on Cloudflare

https://pouta.dev/
2•mohanjith•21m ago•0 comments

Are "Real" Catholics as Conservative as Evangelicals?

https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/are-real-catholics-as-conservative
1•lordleft•22m ago•0 comments

AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?

https://almartis.xyz/gpu-free-datacenter.html
1•AlassaneSakande•23m ago•1 comments

We need to build cooler things

https://sammacginty.substack.com/p/there-are-enough-shovels
1•sammacg•24m ago•2 comments

The Educational Impacts of School Phone Bans: Evidence from Brazil

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35233
1•paulpauper•26m ago•0 comments

OnlyFans owner in talks to sell to investor group at about $8B value

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/onlyfans-owner-talks-sell-investor-group-about-8-billion-val...
1•elorant•26m ago•0 comments

An AI Interface for Research Papers

https://justinross.substack.com/p/an-ai-interface-for-research-papers
1•paulpauper•26m ago•0 comments

I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/author-terry-pratchett-film/687253/
3•paulpauper•27m ago•1 comments

PDFearn – Pdfearn.blogspot.com

https://pdfearn.blogspot.com/
1•iLzKii•28m ago•0 comments

Learning Abstractions: A Conversation with Yann LeCun

https://www.amacad.org/publication/daedalus/learning-abstractions-conversation-yann-lecun
1•sonabinu•29m ago•0 comments