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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 :)

Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3

https://thenextweb.com/news/moonshot-k3-revenue-sharing-us-clouds
1•Aboutplants•1m ago•0 comments

The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-...
1•nanna•2m ago•0 comments

Just say something people want

https://www.gkogan.co/say-something-people-want/
1•gk1•2m ago•0 comments

Zig removes support for wasi-Libc

https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/36633
1•jedisct1•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A local tool that logs every time you swear at your AI coding assistant

https://github.com/fireinbelly/biomass-conversion-index-monitoring-system
1•lokinkl•3m ago•1 comments

Futurepedia

https://www.futurepedia.straxos.com/
1•geoinline•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vyukov MPSC queue in C++20 with a six-claim formal memory-model proof

https://github.com/nisgemML/mpsc-queue
1•nisgem•8m ago•0 comments

Russia starts blocking DoH and DoT

https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-russia-starts-blocking-doh-and-dot/
1•pjf•8m ago•0 comments

Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0j3z6147jo
2•dazhbog•10m ago•0 comments

LinkedIn's 'Seems Like AI Slop' button drops views by 40%

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/linkedin-seems-ai-slop-button-195000046.html
4•mrweasel•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Code Stitcher – Apply any LLM output to your local codebase

2•aihatterer•12m ago•0 comments

The Intelligence Monopoly Is Over. Creating a God's Eye View of the Iran Strikes

https://www.spatialintelligence.ai/p/the-intelligence-monopoly-is-over
1•Bluestein•12m ago•0 comments

RandomAI – A retro split-flap board that routes you to a random AI

https://www.google.com/search?q=https://randomai.chat
1•theaijournalope•18m ago•1 comments

Playing whack-a-mole is losing

https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/whack-a-mole-is-losing/
1•allanbreyes•22m ago•0 comments

Baleba Signs for Manchester United

https://thefinalthirdfootball.blogspot.com/2026/08/thefinalthirdfootball.html
2•Africanway•23m ago•0 comments

AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1141952/puzzles-ai-models-flub-these-tests/
2•joozio•23m ago•0 comments

Quantifying AI data center nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from space

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22153
1•vintagedave•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: backpressure.systems adds MCP and CLI

https://backpressure.systems/mcp-and-cli
1•leocardz_•26m ago•0 comments

A spy satellite simulator in the browser, except the data is real

https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view
1•bauerpl•29m ago•0 comments

Adaptable Engineers Hold Key Skills in the AI Era

https://spectrum.ieee.org/adaptable-engineer-core-skills
2•rbanffy•36m ago•0 comments

The journalist facing an $800 daily fine to keep her sources secret

https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/aug/25/catherine-herridge-journalist-suprem...
11•geox•37m ago•1 comments

As CTE Cases Soar, Why Do Football Crowds Still Go Wild?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/us/nfl-cte.html
1•JumpCrisscross•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I have feelings about my tasks

https://taskroom.autobirds.com/
2•eyalgoren•38m ago•0 comments

Adding CPU affinity in a 24-core build machine made builds take longer

https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117156204452541109
2•birdculture•38m ago•0 comments

Ukraine's Most Potent Weapon: The Software Orchestrating Its Drone Army

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/europe/ukraine-delta-battlefield-management.html
2•0in•40m ago•0 comments

U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/u-s-govt-moves-to-suppress-pushback-on-da...
35•rbanffy•41m ago•12 comments

Vulnerability researchers were repeatedly targeted by trojanised exploits

https://www.sekoia.com/blog/dont-eat-the-chocopocs-how-vulnerability-researchers-were-repeatedly-...
1•hacb•43m ago•0 comments

PyCharm and Django Fall Fundraiser

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/25/pycharm-django-fall-fundraiser/
1•lumpa•43m ago•0 comments

Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/mark-zuckerberg-had-bold-plan-replace-meta-staff-with-ai-h...
9•T-zex•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Exit planning guidance for private company owners

https://nextgenseller.com/
1•not_wowinter14•45m ago•0 comments