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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 :)

The Sign-Off Layer Is Becoming the Real Engineering System

https://newsletter.thelongcommit.com/p/the-sign-off-layer-is-becoming-the
2•jason_s•4m ago•0 comments

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/14/ai-is-code-and-cant-be-prompted-into-being-smart...
2•wglb•5m ago•0 comments

Why Linux Still Feels Unstable

https://www.whileforloop.com/blog/2026/06/14/why-linux-still-feels-unstable/
2•wook__•7m ago•1 comments

Holy Git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/12/github-outages-persist-as-ai-coding-drives-traffi...
1•Bender•7m ago•0 comments

NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can

https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/06/13/nhs-patients-cant-opt-out-of-palantirs-data-plat...
2•Bender•8m ago•0 comments

Federal Network Agency vs. Steam: Investigation into "Plantation Simulator"

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Federal-Network-Agency-vs-Steam-Investigation-into-Plantation-Simula...
1•mschuster91•9m ago•0 comments

The Minecraft community so nostalgia blinded

1•letlearnbasic•9m ago•0 comments

How to Become an AI-Native Software Engineer? What an AI-Native Team Looks Like

https://medium.com/vibecodingpub/how-to-become-an-ai-native-software-engineer-8f4bda05e7dc
2•SaeedZF•10m ago•0 comments

Why pushback is growing against New Jersey's crazy e-bike law

https://electrek.co/2026/06/13/why-pushback-is-growing-against-new-jerseys-crazy-e-bike-law/
1•Bender•10m ago•0 comments

Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer

https://yusufaytas.com/vibe-coder-vs-software-engineer
11•yusufaytas•10m ago•0 comments

Why can't I type and scroll at the same time?

https://scrollpods.app/blog/why-cant-i-type-and-scroll-at-the-same-time
1•tippa123•10m ago•0 comments

Researchers uncovering ADHD links to other health conditions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/06/14/adhd-is-linked-chronic-pain-other-health-condi...
1•bookofjoe•13m ago•1 comments

Commanded, Meet EventSourcingDB

https://docs.eventsourcingdb.io/blog/2026/06/15/commanded-meet-eventsourcingdb/
1•goloroden•13m ago•0 comments

The Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-deepfake-hany-farid.html
1•nhyun•15m ago•0 comments

How Are You Feelin.today?

https://feelin.today/
3•michalwarda•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ray Hosting – Topology-aware game server orchestrator made from scratch

https://ray-hosting.com/en-US
2•bardhyliis•19m ago•0 comments

Why All the PRs?

https://idiallo.com/blog/why-all-the-prs
1•firefoxd•20m ago•0 comments

Bring Siri AI to EU iPhone Users Safely

https://siri4eu.com
6•peterspath•23m ago•3 comments

The Fertile Void

https://d.glezos.com/the-fertile-void/
1•gtzi•25m ago•0 comments

Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/06/14/companies-are-scrambling-to-curtail-soaring-ai-costs
1•andsoitis•26m ago•0 comments

UK to announce Australia-style social media ban for teenagers

https://www.ft.com/content/e3b7be6f-99e7-42d2-a3bb-e400690c7bc0
1•mmarian•26m ago•1 comments

The Aeneid by Virgil (19B.C.E)

https://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.html
1•andsoitis•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pg-status – lightweight HTTP sidecar for PG master/replica discovery

https://github.com/krylosov-aa/pg-status
2•krylosov-aa•28m ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is Dead

https://claude-code-is-dead.vercel.app/
2•gidellav•29m ago•0 comments

Webxdc – Secure mini apps for chats

https://webxdc.org/
1•birdculture•35m ago•0 comments

Paul Krugman breaks down problems with SpaceX valuation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjcOs-N6a8
3•jethronethro•36m ago•0 comments

Is Musk the richest American ever now? No, except as a consumer

1•dfps•37m ago•0 comments

CoreAI_HTCE

https://github.com/miroaleksej/CoreAI_HTCE
1•CoreAi_HTCE•39m ago•0 comments

From AGI to ASI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12683
1•artninja1988•42m ago•0 comments

Pilot and 11 skydiving passengers killed in Missouri plane crash

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/butler-missouri-plane-crash
2•sva_•47m ago•0 comments