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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•11mo ago

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kuberwastaken•11mo 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 :)

Apple Watch uses physiological ODEs and DNNs to estimate VO2Max

https://www.empirical.health/blog/how-apple-watch-cardio-fitness-vo2max-works/
1•brandonb•1m ago•0 comments

Why Commodore went bankrupt in 1994

https://dfarq.homeip.net/why-commodore-went-bankrupt-in-1994/
1•rbanffy•2m ago•0 comments

Apple Introduces App Store Monthly Subscriptions with 12-Month Commitment

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/27/app-store-monthly-subscriptions-12-month-commitment/
1•Cider9986•3m ago•0 comments

Thoma Bravo Refuses to Inject Fresh Cash into Ailing Medallia

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/thoma-bravo-refuses-to-inject-fresh-cash-into-...
2•petethomas•5m ago•0 comments

Epic Games Wins Reversal of Stay in App Store Fee Legal Battle

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/29/epic-games-wins-reversal-app-store-fee-battle/
3•satvikpendem•5m ago•0 comments

Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can't

https://www.osnews.com/story/144845/apple-wants-to-kill-your-time-capsule-but-they-run-netbsd-so-...
5•rbanffy•7m ago•0 comments

Tool calls that execute 100% of the time

https://blog.dottxt.ai/structured-generation-for-tool-calling.html
2•remilouf•9m ago•0 comments

iPhone 17 Is Apple's Most Popular Lineup

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/30/iphone-17-is-apples-most-popular-lineup-ever/
1•Cider9986•10m ago•1 comments

ccbuild – A build system for C++ where your build scripts are C++

https://github.com/aniket-ray/ccbuild
1•aniketray•11m ago•0 comments

Gram: A fork of Zed without the bloat

https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram
1•klaussilveira•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A dashboard for the closest trains in New York City

https://j91680545-byte.github.io/mta-dashboard/
1•throwawayq3423•13m ago•0 comments

Ford's $1B Bet on Detroit's Future – Newlab Tour (11 min video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lARWV1-Guz4
1•rmason•14m ago•0 comments

Kernel Contracts: A Spec. Language for Correctness Across Heterogeneous Silicon

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22032
1•matt_d•15m ago•0 comments

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

https://wozniak.ca/blog/2014/08/03/1/index.html
1•downbad_•15m ago•1 comments

China Suspends Autonomous Driving Permits After Baidu Outage

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/china-suspends-new-autonomous-driving-permits-...
2•layer8•16m ago•0 comments

Managing dependencies in non-manifest languages

2•riteshnoronha16•18m ago•0 comments

Apple announces record fiscal second quarter

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/apple-announces-record-fiscal-second-quarter/
1•Amorymeltzer•21m ago•0 comments

Optimising Programmable

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/404050094_A_Data-Driven_Machine_Learning_Framework_for_O...
1•f0r3st•26m ago•1 comments

Tanstack Malicious Code was a college student with Google Antigravity

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4•amrrs•29m ago•0 comments

Ubuntu website and repositories outage due to DDoS

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6•jtlebigot•33m ago•1 comments

Don't Delegate Understanding

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1•sebg•33m ago•0 comments

Apple's iPhone revenue jumps to $57B despite chip shortages

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3•mgh2•33m ago•2 comments

Apple beats on Q2 earnings, thanks to China and iPhone sales

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2•mgh2•34m ago•1 comments

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma dissolves after judge approves criminal sentence

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6•embedding-shape•38m ago•0 comments

Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking (2019)

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1•TapamN•39m ago•0 comments

AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses

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4•pseudolus•41m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent systems as distributed software

https://fulcrum.inc/2026/04/30/multi-agent-as-distributed.html
4•etherio•41m ago•0 comments

Embodied AI: China's ambitious path to transform its robotics industry

https://merics.org/en/report/embodied-ai-chinas-ambitious-path-transform-its-robotics-industry
1•atlasunshrugged•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell

https://pu.dev/
17•nahimn•45m ago•5 comments

Mapping the U.S. Federal Government Ecosystem for Cybersecurity

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3•mooreds•46m ago•0 comments