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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•8mo ago

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kuberwastaken•8mo 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 :)

Custom firmware for x4 eInk device

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
1•xteink•11s ago•0 comments

Radithor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
1•radeeyate•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Paintracker.ca, a PWA pain tracker that keeps data on device by default

https://www.paintracker.ca/
1•crisiscore_sys•3m ago•0 comments

Iran, 200 hours of a nationwide internet and telecommunications blackout

https://www.dw.com/en/iran-protests-internet-communication-blackout-social-media/a-75487555
1•us321•5m ago•0 comments

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/openai-to-test-ads-in-chatgpt-as-it-burns-...
1•coloneltcb•7m ago•1 comments

Agam Space – Self-hosted, zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted file storage

https://github.com/agam-space/agam-space
1•rameshl•8m ago•1 comments

Judge orders Anna's Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/judge-orders-annas-archive-to-delete-scraped-data-no-...
2•vo2maxer•8m ago•0 comments

Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working on Linux with Patched Wine

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adobe-Photoshop-2025-Wine-Patch
1•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

Casey Muratori breaks down the AWS outage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gstn9qcNdlc
1•marc_omorain•13m ago•0 comments

Down with the BRT, long live the Bus

https://marcochitti.substack.com/p/down-with-the-brt-long-live-the-bus
1•decimalenough•15m ago•0 comments

The Death of Software 2.0 (A Better Analogy)

https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/the-death-of-software-20-a-better
1•achierius•16m ago•0 comments

How to open a file in Emacs

https://www.murilopereira.com/how-to-open-a-file-in-emacs
1•lr0•20m ago•0 comments

The cardinal sin of software architecture

https://functional.computer/blog/the-cardinal-sin-of-software-architecture
1•speckx•23m ago•0 comments

I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool

https://evanhahn.com/i-set-all-376-vim-options-and-im-still-a-fool/
2•todsacerdoti•23m ago•0 comments

Diosdado Banatao, Chip Designer, Investor and Entrepreneur, Dies at 79

https://www.wsj.com/wsjplus/dashboard/articles/diosdado-bantao-chip-designer-dead-79-f205c32b
1•melling•23m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Which system would you trust to run a business you can't afford to lose?

1•cutterlayers•24m ago•0 comments

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate protocol deprecation

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/net-ntlmv1-deprecation-rainbow-tables
3•linolevan•29m ago•1 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxvRx7sQNxc
1•measurablefunc•31m ago•0 comments

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https://www.uxtopian.com/journal/were-more-patient-with-ai-than-one-another
2•lucidplot•32m ago•0 comments

Stop Pulling Yourself Down

https://buanasalf.com/blog/stop-pulling-yourself-down/
1•moh20•32m ago•0 comments

Human code review is a crutch

https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/human-code-review-is-an-outdated
1•nr378•32m ago•0 comments

Kusto Query Language

https://github.com/microsoft/Kusto-Query-Language
1•tosh•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a phone in between a smartphone and dumbphone

https://bouchardindustries.com
1•bouchardio•33m ago•1 comments

Fast Concordance: Instant concordance on a corpus of >1,200 books

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1•evakhoury•33m ago•0 comments

Microsoft killing tech debt with agents [audio]

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/microsoft-killing-tech-debt-with-agents/id1621165150?i=1000...
1•azhenley•34m ago•0 comments

Demystifying Evals for AI Agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents
2•theptip•35m ago•0 comments

Claude Code Scheduler

https://github.com/jshchnz/claude-code-scheduler
1•jshchnz•35m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Introduces Ads to ChatGPT

https://twitter.com/sama/status/2012253252771824074
3•strzalek•35m ago•3 comments

DuckDB's CSV Reader and the Pollock Robustness Benchmark

https://duckdb.org/2025/04/16/duckdb-csv-pollock-benchmark
1•tosh•35m ago•0 comments

Low-Tech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_technology
1•tux•36m ago•0 comments