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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 Cult of LK99

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3WwMxUDZ8
1•EwanG•1m ago•1 comments

Norway Bans AI for Kids 6-13 in Schools

https://yipzap.com/norway-bans-ai-for-kids-6-13-in-schools-a-bold-move-against-tech-dependency/
1•noida•2m ago•0 comments

Exhaustive and Definitive Ranking of All NES Games Released in North America

https://8bitnintendo.science/
2•CharlesW•3m ago•0 comments

Fast-tracked power plants fuel AI boom, with little public scrutiny

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fast-tracked-power-plants-fuel-ai-boom-with-little-public...
1•JumpCrisscross•4m ago•0 comments

Freelance Hiring, Without the Chaos

https://hight.ai
1•YinkaIyiola•4m ago•0 comments

Futuristic Japanese Warship Is on the Market and Winning Fans

https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/this-futuristic-japanese-warship-is-on-the-market-and-winning-fans...
2•JumpCrisscross•5m ago•0 comments

Bill that would mandate AI chip location tracking gains industry support

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chips-security-act-gains-industry-support-letter-rcna350500
3•elliotbnvl•11m ago•0 comments

Welcome to America, World Cup visitors. Don't forget to tip

https://www.axios.com/2026/06/21/world-cup-service-fees-tipping-culture
3•rguiscard•15m ago•0 comments

The Wheel of Life

https://dsernst.com/writing/2026/wheel-of-life
1•dsernst•15m ago•0 comments

Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions

https://www.teachmecoolstuff.com/viewarticle/fine-tuning-a-local-llm-to-categorize-questions
2•dev-experiments•19m ago•0 comments

The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/social-codes-tech-workers-class-identity-digital-capitalism/
1•colinb•21m ago•0 comments

Simple hard way to conjugate Japanese verbs

https://underreacted.leaflet.pub/3mmevu6woys27
2•valzevul•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Real-Life Deception Detection Without Uploading Video

https://github.com/WhissleAI/lie_detection_binary
1•ksingla025•24m ago•0 comments

Evaluating sugar-sweetened beverage tax effects

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12669988/
1•luu•27m ago•0 comments

I Canceled My French Tutor and Built an LLM Tool That Does It Better

https://alshe.substack.com/p/i-canceled-my-french-tutor-and-built
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PebbleOS

https://github.com/coredevices/PebbleOS
1•arbayi•29m ago•0 comments

Robust Jobserver

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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html
8•xnx•32m ago•1 comments

Migrating from Claude to DeepSeek without breaking everything

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2•eric_khun•34m ago•0 comments

Compass – guardrails and a hard budget cap for AI coding agents

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1•chandu1221•36m ago•0 comments

The Crusade of Hormuz

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Real-Time GPS Tracking Station

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1•gnabgib•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fold-logging.nvim – fold logging and debug-print statements in Neovim

https://github.com/markosnarinian/fold-logging.nvim
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Swift, Gay and Pope's season in the sun

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1•Petiver•54m ago•0 comments

I just released Mango Launcher

https://www.mangolauncher.com/
2•PinyaApps•55m ago•0 comments

Street Traffic Regulation (1909)

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16295
1•willmeyers•56m ago•1 comments

I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke – Launching CivBench

https://www.lwilko.com/blog/i-gave-an-ai-a-civilization
3•LiamWilko•58m ago•2 comments

AI Is Discovering the Doorman Fallacy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-QzIum9bNU
1•CHB0403085482•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tunr – Expose your local server in 3 seconds

https://github.com/ahmetvural79/tunr
2•ahvural•1h ago•0 comments

Improvements to Std:Format in C++26

https://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2026/06/19/improvements-to-stdformat-in-c26/
1•rbanffy•1h ago•0 comments