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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 :)

Fast UTF-8 handling for modern C++ with support for legacy C

https://developforperformance.com/FastUtf8.html
1•kirk_krauss•1m ago•1 comments

Received a Vivek Shah CIPA Demand Letter? Don't Pay Yet

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/received-a-vivek-shah-cipa-demand-7982240/
1•richartruddie•5m ago•1 comments

Fretengine: Visualize chord and scale relationships on the guitar fretboard

https://app.fretengine.com/
1•leftoaklabs•8m ago•1 comments

Can AI agents use ur site?

https://github.com/Open-Ingress/OpenIngress
4•manupareekk•12m ago•6 comments

Liviu Librescu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu_Librescu
1•stmw•12m ago•0 comments

'More stable than real estate': How software's reliable revenue started to crack

https://www.9fin.com/insights/more-stable-than-real-estate
1•petethomas•12m ago•0 comments

Disabling Siri

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/disabling-siri
1•cdrnsf•13m ago•0 comments

I rid myself of short form media

https://tcotc.dev/weekly/2026-w28/
1•willx86•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CheapStack – affordable dev starter kits and boilerplates

https://cheapstack.dev
2•makbar890•18m ago•0 comments

Algorithm Aversion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm_aversion
1•cainxinth•18m ago•0 comments

Claude Fable is stylistically closer to Kimi K3 than Claude Opus

https://slopidx.com/models/claude-fable-5
1•zetrk•18m ago•0 comments

US administration considering ban on Chinese open source AI models

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kimi
3•anigbrowl•19m ago•1 comments

The Messy Reality of AI Transformation

https://seasonedleadership.substack.com/p/the-messy-reality-of-ai-transformation
1•mooreds•27m ago•0 comments

Jan – Open-Source ChatGPT Replacement

https://www.jan.ai/
1•jantissler•28m ago•1 comments

The Cartel Olympics

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/mexico-cartel-la-union-tepito/686453/
1•cdrnsf•28m ago•0 comments

Donation Controversy

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/donation-controversy
3•Cider9986•30m ago•2 comments

US imposes new 50% tariffs on some Canadian products

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-imposes-new-50-tariffs-canadian-products-2026-07-20/
10•JumpCrisscross•33m ago•2 comments

You're not ambitious enough with Claude

https://twitter.com/christinexzhu/status/2074847461588267466
1•gmays•35m ago•0 comments

Pregnant Womans Roadside Death Triggers Push to Reopen Mississippi DeltaHospital

https://kffhealthnews.org/rural-health/rural-mississippi-delta-hospital-desert-pregnant-woman-die...
3•Jimmc414•35m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts

4•nanis•36m ago•3 comments

Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/ethernet_switch_asic/
1•random__duck•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seek – Ctrl+F for Videos

https://seekapp.cc
1•surprisefox•38m ago•0 comments

Parsifal and The Muppet Movie are the only two genuine Gesamtkunstwerke

https://morbidcuriosity.substack.com/p/enthullet-die-rainbow-connection
1•pnwpnw•39m ago•0 comments

My falling-out with the rationalist community

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/my-falling-out-with-the-rationalist
7•surprisetalk•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Velprium - Time Workspace

https://www.velprium.com/
1•mjkl7896•43m ago•0 comments

Mysterious little red dots at the beginning time may have an explanation

https://www.livescience.com/space/mysterious-little-red-dots-at-the-beginning-time-may-finally-ha...
1•arto•44m ago•0 comments

Ramp AI Router

https://router-website-ramp.vercel.app/router
1•robbiet480•45m ago•1 comments

Poverty of attention. Text became free. Attention didn't. (German)

https://christopher-helm.com/aufmerksamkeit-ueberfischung-ki-journalismus/
2•chelm•46m ago•0 comments

Repos in 29 days with an AI pipeline – what broke wasn't code

https://lkforge.com/blog/26-repos-in-29-days/
1•lucianBKR•47m ago•0 comments

US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5B settlement of copyright lawsuit

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-approves-anthropics-15-billion-settlement-copyright-lawsui...
3•Anon84•48m ago•0 comments