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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 :)

Plants keep tabs on the competition, and adapt growth patterns

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/18/how-plants-keep-tabs-on-the-competition
1•marojejian•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Persona.js – a vanilla-JS agent UI library with native WebMCP (MIT)

https://www.persona-chat.dev/
2•becomevocal•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An experiment in human and AI social networking

https://www.sentibook.com/
1•sentibook•7m ago•0 comments

HSIP–local identity server in Rust with Ed25519 signing and AI agent governance

https://github.com/rewired89/HSIP-1PHASE
2•Rewired89•9m ago•0 comments

Ex-Citadel Trader Building Trading Tools for All

https://runhalcyon.com/
2•Entropnt•9m ago•0 comments

The notational conventions I adopted, and why (EWD 1300)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1300.html
1•tosh•10m ago•0 comments

Why an AI-saturated internet gave me a reason to write

https://halit.alptekin.im/posts/still-human-here/
3•nofool•12m ago•0 comments

Read Zero Knowledge As I Write It (crypto thriller)

https://feld.com/archives/2026/06/read-zero-knowledge-as-i-write-it/
1•rmason•13m ago•0 comments

AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-will-reinstate-memory-encryption-on-ryzen-900...
4•roboror•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

https://mitchivin.com/
7•mitchivin•18m ago•5 comments

GitHub DMCA Repository

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/06/2026-06-04-tesla.md
1•5701652400•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tin Validate, a tax ID validator that explains why checks pass or fail

https://tin-validate.com/
2•bapito•19m ago•0 comments

VMAF v1: Good Is Not Good Enough

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/vmaf-v1-good-is-not-good-enough-60d7e4244ea8
2•ledoge•21m ago•0 comments

Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026

https://swiss-cow.com/blog/google-world-cup-wrong-flags
3•jimseinta•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine

https://glyphcss.com
1•apresmoi•26m ago•1 comments

Russia no longer needs so many graduates, country's education minister warns

https://novayagazeta.eu/en/articles/2026/06/19/russia-no-longer-needs-so-many-graduates-countrys-...
6•randycupertino•26m ago•0 comments

The Market's AI Fanfare Is Running into a Harsh Political Reality

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-markets-ai-fanfare-is-running-into-a-harsh-political-reality-b919...
1•thm•29m ago•0 comments

The Next Generation of American Cheese (2023)

https://www.eater.com/23734992/new-school-cheese-artisanal-american-cheese
1•NaOH•29m ago•0 comments

AI in Games: The Impact on Sales

https://www.game-oracle.com/blog/ai-part2
1•Macha•30m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?

4•JohnDSDev•30m ago•3 comments

GoPro and Roomba were U.S. pioneers. Chinese rivals now dominate

https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-consumer-tech-brands/
5•thm•30m ago•0 comments

Russia Wants AI Sovereignty. It Has a Chip Problem

https://time.com/article/2026/06/18/russia-ai-putin-chip-us-china/
2•thm•31m ago•0 comments

America's Founders helped create a world they were not yet ready to live in

https://reason.com/2026/06/13/disillusioned-revolutionaries/
3•momentmaker•34m ago•0 comments

LLVM-Snippy: An Instruction Sequence Generator. Part 1: Overview [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gomtQMGOFF8
3•matt_d•34m ago•0 comments

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgresbench
4•saisrirampur•35m ago•0 comments

How the Fifth Lateran Council Unlocked Financial Theory

https://sebastiangarren.com/2026/06/17/lending-is-meritorious-and-should-be-praised-how-the-fifth...
2•momentmaker•35m ago•0 comments

World first, a man living with HIV received transplant from HIV-positive donor

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-world-first-a-man-living-with-hiv-received-a-lung-t...
2•iancmceachern•36m ago•0 comments

Neuromorphic Computing with Sound Waves Cuts Power Use

https://spectrum.ieee.org/neuromorphic-computing-acoustic-chips
3•rbanffy•37m ago•0 comments

Machines or Mind?

https://antigonejournal.com/2024/11/machines-or-mind-loebs-rouse/
2•jruohonen•37m ago•0 comments

Claude Code Issue management extension for VS Code

https://www.forq.ink/
2•barakolshe•37m ago•1 comments