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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•8mo ago

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kuberwastaken•8mo 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 :)

Show HN: I made Claude play Minecraft using Agent SDK

https://github.com/haksndot/haksnbot-agent
1•haksndot•5m ago•0 comments

Chinese app 'Are You Dead' sparks debate on social isolation – DW News [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReLMRNkywsA
1•alamortsubite•6m ago•0 comments

TestIQ – Find duplicate tests using coverage analysis

https://github.com/pydevtools/TestIQ
1•kirankotari•7m ago•1 comments

Oldest Arrow Poison Discovered on 60k-Year-Old Stone Age Weapons

https://scitechdaily.com/worlds-oldest-arrow-poison-discovered-on-60000-year-old-stone-age-weapons/
1•Gaishan•8m ago•1 comments

Ibuprofen may have anti-cancer effects but risks remain

https://scitechdaily.com/this-popular-painkiller-in-your-cabinet-may-be-doing-more-than-you-think/
1•Gaishan•9m ago•0 comments

Mrcal 2.5 Released

https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/01/18_mrcal-25-released.html
2•dima55•17m ago•1 comments

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (NeurIPS 2025)

https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/why-reinforcement-learning-plateaus-without-representation-...
1•brandonb•17m ago•0 comments

Heart Rate Variability

https://www.empirical.health/metrics/hrv/
3•brandonb•18m ago•0 comments

Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains

https://blog.popey.com/2026/01/malware-purveyors-taking-over-published-snap-email-domains/
2•birdculture•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Auto-switch keyboard layout per physical keyboard (Rust, Linux/KDE)

https://github.com/aydiler/kb-layout-daemon
1•aydiler•21m ago•0 comments

AI Energy Consumption: How Much Power Does AI Use?

https://toolpod.dev/blog/ai-energy-consumption-environmental-impact
2•bsdoubleya•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Excel from Snowflake – No Code

https://snowpivot.starferret.com
1•xvok•33m ago•0 comments

EU considers $108B in retaliatory tariffs on US over Trump's threats

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-considers-108-billion-retaliatory-tariffs-us-over-trumps-...
10•tokai•38m ago•1 comments

Models Handler Tool for Golang with Build in ORM and AutoSync Feature

1•vrianta-•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DocsSquirrel (AI Agent) – Never about writing documentation again

https://docssquirrel.com
1•grey_coder•42m ago•1 comments

Teenagers up to 30: It's false that the brain suddenly becomes an adult at 25

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-01-17/teenagers-up-to-30-its-false-that-the-brain-su...
3•akyuu•43m ago•0 comments

At least 21 killed in Spain after crash involving high-speed trains

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedw6ylpynyo
2•akyuu•43m ago•1 comments

AI Zettelkasten Builder

https://edge.dog/docs
1•castalian•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ralph-template – Autonomous AI agent loop in a single folder

https://github.com/bernatsampera/ralph-template
1•bsampera•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deploy multiple apps on the same VPS with a single command

https://github.com/amirkarimi/docklift
1•4m1rk•50m ago•0 comments

Free tool to see how AI crawlers (GPT, Claude, Perplexity) read any site

https://www.veezow.com/
3•Atbech•52m ago•0 comments

Praxis News: A Free News Browser for iOS

https://praxisnews.app
1•firstbabylonian•54m ago•0 comments

If Not Lessons, Then What?

https://third-bit.com/2026/01/18/if-not-lessons-then-what/
2•todsacerdoti•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Remote AI Computer Use – Securely Control Your Mac from Anywhere

https://donely.ai/
1•Stanlyya•54m ago•0 comments

Coding with LLMs in 2026: The Model Matters More Than the Prompts

https://twitter.com/slow_developer/status/1877798620692422835
1•bored_hacker•54m ago•1 comments

From Idea to Impact: How Modern Technology Is Built and Scaled

http://techvastonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/from-idea-to-impact-how-modern.html
1•Silvaaaa•55m ago•1 comments

11:59 PM

https://atharvaraykar.com/reinforce/
2•zetalyrae•1h ago•0 comments

Mammoth fossils from Alaska turn out to belong to two ancient whales

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-case-mistaken-identity-mammoth-fossils.html
2•wglb•1h ago•1 comments

US Housing Outlook: Affordability weighing on demand. Supply low [pdf]

https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/USHousingOutlookJan2026_v2.pdf
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Betterment hid references to a data breach from search engines

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/fintech-firm-betterment-confirms-data-breach-after-hackers-send...
3•gaws•1h ago•0 comments