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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 :)

Tesla Recalls 3M EVs in China over Door Handle Safety

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-21/tesla-recalls-3-million-evs-as-china-cracks-do...
2•Hoefner•2m ago•0 comments

Walmart adding Tap to Pay after years of shoppers asking for it

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/walmart-finally-adding-tap-to-pay-after-years-of-shoppers-a...
1•thunderbong•7m ago•0 comments

Older Americans leaving workforce poses challenges for AI plans

https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/news-insights/articles/2026/8/older-americans-lea...
1•littlexsparkee•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Best of Marketing, an interactive and ranked advertising index

https://bestmarketingnewsletter.com/
1•jaskaransainiz•13m ago•0 comments

You can just choose how many bugs you want now

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/16/you-can-just-choose-how-many-bugs-you-want-now/
1•tosh•15m ago•0 comments

10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over

https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-10-worse-100x-cheaper-10000x
1•swyx•16m ago•0 comments

I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI

https://en.andros.dev/blog/09a21bdd/i-turned-unix-talk-from-1983-into-the-interface-for-my-ai/
1•andros•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agile AI Development Lifecycle

https://valeriavg.dev/agile-ai-development-lifecycle
1•valeriavg_dev•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Learn Leap, an AI tutor that teaches from your own material

https://learnleap.xyz
1•HarunaOseni•24m ago•0 comments

Music Theory for Programmers

https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers
2•reorder9695•25m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/anthropics-opus-4-6-is-a-smut-machine/
1•sbulaev•25m ago•0 comments

LYF SOS: Emergency Tech for Indian Networks

https://lyfsos.lyfmail.com/
1•LYFMail•27m ago•0 comments

Feminism didn't kill the male breadwinner model, the economy did

https://www.ft.com/content/4b7b8d3f-5625-4dba-ad90-66192c101956
1•go4rayyan•27m ago•0 comments

Chainwarden – offline crypto address validation for Java

https://chainwarden.org
1•salvatorzy•28m ago•0 comments

Angus Barbieri's Fast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast
1•handfuloflight•33m ago•0 comments

BBC's Ann Droid [from Diane Morgan] raises questions about the future of care

https://theconversation.com/could-robots-help-tackle-loneliness-bbcs-ann-droid-raises-questions-a...
1•mdp2021•33m ago•0 comments

Walmart launching Apple Pay support next week

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/21/walmart-finally-launching-apple-pay-support-next-week/
1•ksec•39m ago•0 comments

EnsembleWriter: Free Screenwriting Software

https://ensemblewriter.com/
1•handfuloflight•40m ago•0 comments

Is it on Linux yet? – Tracking Linux support for handmade software

https://isitonlinuxyet.com/
1•HexDecOctBin•42m ago•0 comments

Blast Radius – who else is exposed when an NPM package is compromised

https://github.com/Rohit-ATS/blast-radius
1•rohitmaruri•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Reverse-engineered a gaming mouse's HID protocol to bring it to Linux

https://github.com/blak0p/attack-shark-linux
1•blakok4•45m ago•0 comments

Biomimetic reconstruction of butterfly wing nanostructures for radiative cooling

https://pubs.rsc.org/nh/article-abstract/7/9/1054/773493/Biomimetic-reconstruction-of-butterfly-w...
1•soupspaces•48m ago•0 comments

A simplified robotics framework for non robotics devs

https://docs.peppy.bot/quickstart/
1•Ekami•50m ago•0 comments

Git Push No-Mistakes

https://github.com/kunchenguid/no-mistakes
1•handfuloflight•53m ago•1 comments

TikTok to pay $400M to US in one of largest child privacy settlements

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyr0l45xjro
2•geox•1h ago•0 comments

Bodycam – This Is What a Gunshot Sounds Like – Devlog [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz66Ek1RYWU
2•twalichiewicz•1h ago•1 comments

South Korea's Child-Hating Society Locks Playgrounds, Silences Children

https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/08/22/I7XTKBQNYFBXHJRSIZV7XMT45Q/
3•theletterf•1h ago•0 comments

Tech Openings in the Bay Area and New York: What Our August Data Shows

https://corvi.careers/blog/did-nyc-pass-sf-bay-area-tech-openings/
1•sp1982•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: PgExtAssure – pre-admission security evidence for PostgreSQL extensions

https://github.com/borborich/pgextassure
3•borborich•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why does the US government search through people's phones at the border?

7•roschdal•1h ago•2 comments