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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 :)

Energy Department wants to weaken efficiency standards for home appliances

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/02/energy-department-wants-weaken-efficiency-stan...
1•littlexsparkee•19s ago•0 comments

I think I can get the original reasoning of Claude models. Is this real?

https://thinking-signature-demo-5g65bijswq-de.a.run.app/
1•bayes-song•5m ago•0 comments

Bun vs. Deno vs. Node.js: which JavaScript runtime wins in 2026?

https://botmonster.com/web-dev/bun-vs-deno-vs-nodejs-javascript-runtime-2026/
1•enz•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Prompt Injection as an Egress Problem

https://www.vaibot.io/blog/prompt-injection-is-an-egress-problem
1•bcampbell88•8m ago•1 comments

AI changes the economics of software rewrites

https://thetruthasiseeitnow.com/ai-slop-starts-with-the-codebase-itself/
3•cinooo•12m ago•0 comments

LisaFPGA: The Apple Lisa computer implemented inside an FPGA

https://github.com/alexthecat123/LisaFPGA
1•signa11•12m ago•0 comments

Samsung chip division's 1-year profit beat past 40 years of profits, combined

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsungs-chip-division-expects-to-out-earn-its-entire-...
3•theanonymousone•13m ago•0 comments

Accelerating Harbor with Tensorlake

https://www.tensorlake.ai/blog/accelerating-harbor-with-tensorlake
1•cooleel•15m ago•0 comments

Why LLMs get dates and times wrong (and how to fix it)

https://www.cronofy.com/blog/why-llms-get-dates-and-times-wrong
1•ColinEberhardt•18m ago•0 comments

SpaceX closes below debut price in two-day slide after Nasdaq-100 inclusion

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/spacex-stock-nasdaq-100-ipo.html
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Computer Use with any models Clanker Secretary

https://twitter.com/tekbog/status/2075086378459898210
2•tekbog•21m ago•0 comments

AI is creating economic winners, says IMF

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/imf-ai-energy-iran
1•TMWNN•21m ago•0 comments

How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari

https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-donkey-kong-toppled-atari/
1•giuliomagnifico•24m ago•0 comments

Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design

https://www.amazon.com/RISC-V-Microprocessor-System-Chip-Design/dp/0323994989
3•xlmnxp•30m ago•0 comments

Artificial Climate Controls Might Become Ineffective – Because of Climate Change

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/artificial-climate-controls-might-become-ineffective-because-climat...
1•SiempreViernes•31m ago•0 comments

An off switch for dual use knowledge in AI models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/off-switch-dual-use
1•DeveloperErrata•36m ago•0 comments

The Unlikely Journalist Who Looked into the Heart of War

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-unlikely-journalist-who-looked-into-the-heart-of-war
1•petethomas•36m ago•0 comments

What Scientists Learned by Eavesdropping on Thousands of People

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/what-scientists-learned-by-eavesdropping-on-t...
3•petethomas•38m ago•0 comments

AI software that generates 'rage bait' developed by Germany's far-right AfD

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/07/08/ai-software-that-generates-rage-bait-developed...
3•giuliomagnifico•41m ago•0 comments

Companies must address self-driving car interference with emergency vehicles

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/companies-must-address-self-driving-car-interference-with-emerge...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•41m ago•0 comments

Pg_re2: Postgres extension for fast, RE2-powered regular expressions in Postgres

https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-pg_re2-regex-in-postgres
2•saisrirampur•41m ago•0 comments

Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/9703/Spider-venom-kills-varroa-mites-without-harming
32•Jedd•44m ago•8 comments

Microsoft's gaming strategy has misfired badly

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/07/08/microsofts-gaming-strategy-has-misfired-badly
4•petethomas•49m ago•0 comments

Reload Rust code without app restarts. For faster feedback cycles

https://github.com/rksm/hot-lib-reloader-rs
2•vlovich123•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Embeddable visual HTML/CSS page editor

https://neikiri.dev/page-editor/
1•neikiri•50m ago•0 comments

OpenCode Bug: "I did not say that you did"

https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/07/08/OpenCode-Bug-I-did-not-say-that-you-did.html
2•datadrivenangel•55m ago•0 comments

Compendium – Shared workspace for teams and AI agents

https://www.cerenovus.ai/
1•Azimuth05•1h ago•1 comments

The AI Policy That Never Shipped

https://mendelevium.github.io/the-policy-never-shipped/
1•bobbybidon•1h ago•0 comments

Global Cancer Observatory – interactive visualization and data explore

1•andsoitis•1h ago•1 comments

EU's border check needs complete 'overhaul', says Greek airports chief

https://www.ft.com/content/83ae0ca8-ccce-4253-abfb-4c204f24bbbd
1•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•0 comments