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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•7mo ago

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kuberwastaken•7mo 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 :)

How Do People Catch Baseballs? (2021)

https://www.wired.com/story/how-do-people-actually-catch-baseballs/
1•vismit2000•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use supercomputers to simulate government types?

1•keepamovin•6m ago•0 comments

Ambient music mixed with the sounds of San Francisco public safety radio

https://somafm.com/player24/station/sf1033
1•indigodaddy•9m ago•0 comments

Bad programmers are about to become exposed

https://sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com/p/bad-programmers-are-about-to-become
1•soham•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: AWS VPC/Subnet Calculator and Terraform Generator (Itcmds.ai)

https://itcmds.ai/AWS_IP_Calculator
1•munyunting•12m ago•0 comments

Ancient dirty dishes reveal decades of questionable findings

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ancient-dirty-dishes-reveal-decades-questionable-findings
1•geox•20m ago•0 comments

Hong Kong holds Legislative Council election

https://qazinform.com/news/hong-kong-holds-legislative-council-election-7cdc44
1•Bolat14•22m ago•0 comments

Northern California's largest non-Tesla fast charging hub: now online in Oakland

https://electrek.co/2025/12/04/northern-california-largest-non-tesla-fast-charging-hub-is-now-onl...
1•MilnerRoute•22m ago•0 comments

Years after anime imagined it, Japan has realized exosuits

https://twitter.com/CyberRobooo/status/1997656741363036595
2•keepamovin•29m ago•0 comments

Constructivist AI: A New Approach to AI

https://github.com/DanexCodr/Constructivist-AI
1•DanexCodr•30m ago•0 comments

Making Software: Blending modes

https://twitter.com/DanHollick/status/1583080119068807168
1•vismit2000•36m ago•1 comments

Postgres CDC in ClickHouse, A year in review

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgres-cdc-year-in-review-2025
1•saisrirampur•40m ago•0 comments

Stanford PhD dropout hired Meta's brightest minds to join AI math startup

https://www.businessinsider.com/axiom-math-stanford-dropout-meta-ai-researchers-startup-2025-12
2•teleforce•43m ago•0 comments

Cold Case Inquiries Hampered After Ancestry.com Revisits Terms of Use

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/nyregion/ancestry-dna-police.html
2•WarOnPrivacy•43m ago•3 comments

Martin Hairer: Do Mathematicians Need Computers? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbVqc1tPLos
1•vismit2000•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Matchmyvc.com – Is this going to be useful?

https://matchmyvc.com
1•tapan_garg•1h ago•0 comments

Color Recreation from First Principles

https://ycao.net/posts/recreating-color-simplified/
1•xiaoyu2006•1h ago•1 comments

The surprising countries pulling off fast clean energy transitions

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/climate/solar-wind-renewables-transition-global-pakistan-hungary-c...
3•toomuchtodo•1h ago•1 comments

Earth needs more energy. Atlanta's Super Soaker creator may have a solution

https://www.ajc.com/business/2025/11/earth-needs-more-energy-atlantas-super-soaker-creator-may-ha...
2•TMWNN•1h ago•0 comments

I made a prompt framework that makes LLMs stop hedging and speak straight

2•DrRockzos•1h ago•1 comments

The Web Runs on Tolerance

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/the-web-runs-on-tolerance/
4•benwerd•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Peephole

https://peephole.greg.technology/
3•gregsadetsky•1h ago•1 comments

AI Interview Coder Assistant

https://interviewcoder.top
2•ainterviewcoder•1h ago•2 comments

ChatGPT claims to have solved Navier-Stokes problem

https://github.com/vporton/navier-stokes
2•porton•1h ago•2 comments

Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for measuring blood glucose

https://news.mit.edu/2025/noninvasive-imaging-could-replace-finger-pricks-diabetes-1203
17•ivewonyoung•1h ago•2 comments

I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/magazine/ai-higher-education-students-teachers.html
1•bookofjoe•1h ago•2 comments

Open Source Doesn't Fail Because of Code

https://blog.ulisesgascon.com/open-source-doesnt-fail-because-of-code
1•gpi•1h ago•0 comments

India reviews always-on A-GPS tracking plan for phones

https://news.kagi.com:443/tech/2025120618/india-reviews-always-on-a-gps-tracking-plan-for-phones?...
2•hereme888•1h ago•2 comments

Use AI without skill atrophy

https://www.augmentedswe.com/p/use-ai-without-skill-atrophy
2•wordsaboutcode•1h ago•1 comments

New Augmented Reality Tech Can Turn Any Surface into Keyboard

https://news.utdallas.edu/science-technology/augmented-reality-tech-keyboard-2025/
2•ashishgupta2209•1h ago•0 comments