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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 Grim and the Dark: Jon Heder's journey into the world of Grimdark art [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBJefwNkLqo
1•andystanton•4m ago•0 comments

Company Cleaning Up the Reflecting Pool Says It Has 'Nothing to Hide'

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-california-greenwater-services-729be960
1•petethomas•14m ago•0 comments

AI Agent Triggers Nuclear Strike After Getting Outmaneuvered in Civilization VI

https://decrypt.co/371877/ai-agent-nuclear-strike-civilization-vi-benchmark
1•Khaine•16m ago•0 comments

Cigarettes

https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2026/06/28/on-cigarettes/
2•aendruk•21m ago•0 comments

Side-Stepping the Secretary Problem

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/side-step-secretary-problem-hiring/index.html
3•Curiositry•28m ago•0 comments

The Usefulness of AI Agents

https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260408-on-the-usefulness-of-ai-agents/index.html
1•Curiositry•32m ago•0 comments

/Dev/Notion

https://www.notion.com/product/dev
2•handfuloflight•32m ago•0 comments

AI glasses are aiding cheating in exams. Test-obsessed Asia is ground zero

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/asia/ai-glasses-cheating-exams-intl-hnk
2•pseudolus•34m ago•0 comments

AI Workflows in Production Without Burning Tokens

https://unmeshed.io/blog/bringing-ai-workflow-into-production-without-burning-tokens
1•jusonchan81•37m ago•0 comments

Microsoft worker emails employees about company's support of Israel

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/06/26/microsoft-worker-emails/
5•lorecore•39m ago•0 comments

The Cheques Are for the Land Not the Intelligence

https://aidatumpoint.substack.com/p/the-cheques-are-for-the-land-not
2•MadCatBureau•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: best.free

https://best.free/
2•nadermx•41m ago•0 comments

Crypto vs. community: 4k local US lenders join forces to fight 'stablecoins' law

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/28/crypto-v-community-local-lenders-fight-stablec...
3•pseudolus•41m ago•1 comments

New UK stealth fighter demonstrator takes shape

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/new-uk-stealth-fighter-demonstrator-takes-shape/
2•Gravityloss•41m ago•0 comments

You get to watch 1 season of 1 show for the rest of your life, what do you pick?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/Sf9sqnAqRr
1•eeko_systems•42m ago•1 comments

QUIC, HTTP/3 and WebTransport Vulnerabilities and How PQCrypta Mitigates Them

https://pqcrypta.com/quic-hardening/
1•pqpdf•51m ago•0 comments

Wall Street regulator investigating prediction market giant Polymarket

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/26/cftc-investigation-prediction-market-polymarket-00978218
11•voxadam•58m ago•1 comments

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07013
13•babelfish•1h ago•8 comments

My coworker Iris isn't a person

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2•vnbrs•1h ago•0 comments

France records 1k additional deaths as extreme heat breaks European records

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3•rolph•1h ago•2 comments

State of the Tau 2026: Why Pi Is Wrong

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Khaos C2: Building a Custom Command and Control from Scratch

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2•882542F3884314B•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Local CJK/Latin entity extraction without shipping a model?

2•zphou•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pitch Ponies – startup themed comic series

https://supramono.com/blog/never-trust-a-venture-capitalist-a-founders-comic-book-horror-story/
1•supramono•1h ago•0 comments

Writing your own static website generator

https://x3hy.github.io/data/pages/f32cbcd0-c594-4a16-b93b-bdcb2c9b2573.html
3•3hy•1h ago•0 comments

A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels

https://qsoe.net
16•edvinbesic•1h ago•1 comments

Hire Me (Taylor) via API

https://taylor.town/looop-000
2•Curiositry•1h ago•0 comments

Amid stark opposition, data center developers think twice about Florida

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/28/florida-data-centers-developers-opposition-00978255
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine

https://xonaly.com/
21•backlit4034•1h ago•8 comments

Comparative Advantage in Software

https://achad4.substack.com/p/comparative-advantage-in-software
1•achad4•1h ago•0 comments