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A new experiment deepens the mystery over gravitational constant, Big G

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/science/gravitational-constant-measure-gravity-big-g
1•rramadass•3m ago•0 comments

Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gambling-ads-on-social-media-reach-more-than-twice-as-many-me...
1•hhs•4m ago•0 comments

Where the Curves Cross

https://whattotelltherobot.com/p/where-the-curves-cross
1•stefie10•5m ago•0 comments

AI Bots Auditioning for Wall Street Are Mostly Losing

https://www.fa-mag.com/news/ai-bots-auditioning-for-wall-street-trading-are-mostly-losing-86902.html
1•izyda•9m ago•1 comments

Researchers discover advanced language processing in the unconscious human brain

https://www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-discover-advanced-language-processing-in-the-unconscious-hum...
1•hhs•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Blamo A vibecoded app for vibecoding vibe games

https://www.blamo.ai/
1•semateos•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Notion-to-site – sync any Notion database to local Markdown/MDX/JSON

https://github.com/rashidazarang/notion-to-site
2•rashidae•17m ago•0 comments

ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recogniti...
4•cdrnsf•19m ago•0 comments

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/
4•psxuaw•19m ago•0 comments

The Mounting Toll of Multi-Year Funding on American Biomedical Research [pdf]

https://actfornih.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/A4N_Updated-MYF-One-Pager_May-2026_FINAL.pdf
2•petethomas•20m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare is laying off 1,100 employees to prepare for 'the agentic AI era'

https://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-announces-1100-layoffs-amid-ai-focus-shift-2026-5
11•cdrnsf•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Kill-The-Backlog, self-hosted background agents

https://github.com/jvaill/Kill-The-Backlog
3•jvaill•22m ago•0 comments

As Russia Expands Internet Blackouts, Kremlin Tells Citizens to Use the Radio

https://united24media.com/latest-news/as-russia-expands-internet-blackouts-kremlin-tells-citizens...
2•hkmaxpro•27m ago•0 comments

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-...
2•hhs•27m ago•0 comments

Mirror Neuron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
2•kristianpaul•27m ago•0 comments

Agentic Artificial Intelligence in Finance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21672
2•nhatcher•28m ago•0 comments

CSP2XSS: Vulnerability in Next.js App Router

https://aisafe.io/blog/csp2xss-nextjs-vulnerability
2•adragos_•28m ago•0 comments

America's Math Crisis

https://time.com/article/2026/05/05/america-math-crisis/
2•paulpauper•30m ago•0 comments

Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn't Use AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/writers-are-going-to-extremes-to-prove-they-didnt-use-ai-46e7c3f7
3•paulpauper•30m ago•1 comments

Let Me Convince You to Be Prolific

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/05/let-me-convince-you-to-be-prolific.html
2•herbertl•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Unofficial real-time tracker for the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak

https://hantavirus-production.up.railway.app/
2•BreRoz•31m ago•0 comments

HTTP/3 over QUIC in Node.js

http://www.jasnell.me/posts/quic-part-4
2•rglover•32m ago•0 comments

I am done trying to fit in

2•ycosynot•33m ago•0 comments

New security vulnerabilities disclosed in Next.js (patches released)

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v16.2.6
2•umaar•36m ago•0 comments

MIT Canvas goes down after cybercrime group breaches Instructure

https://thetech.com/2026/05/07/canvas-breach-26
2•testfoobar•37m ago•1 comments

Cloudflare stock sinks after earnings; cuts 1,100 employees due to AI changes

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/cloudflare-net-q1-2026-stock-earnings-layoffs.html
5•choult•37m ago•1 comments

Why Are All LLMs Obsessed with Japanese Culture?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21751
2•geox•38m ago•1 comments

OpenZL v0.2.0

https://github.com/facebook/openzl/releases/tag/v0.2.0
3•pella•39m ago•0 comments

David Attenborough turns 100: his legacy, from science to storytelling

https://theconversation.com/as-david-attenborough-turns-100-four-experts-explore-his-legacy-from-...
3•mellosouls•41m ago•0 comments

Octonous Open Beta: What We've Learned and Where We're Going

https://blog.mozilla.ai/octonous-open-beta-what-weve-learned-and-where-were-going/
2•prismatic•42m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Syneva – An AI Chatbot Ported to a Kids' Tile-Based Limited Game Engine

https://sprig.hackclub.com/share/VzO62YQXBGOpcbj7xusB
2•kuberwastaken•12mo ago

Comments

kuberwastaken•12mo 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 :)