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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 :)

Show HN: Memcode AI goes open source with Claude Code inspired coding agent

https://github.com/memcode-ai/memcode
1•timerwin•52s ago•0 comments

Hello

1•pranavgawas-pro•7m ago•0 comments

Act like it is science

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/08/act-like-it-is-science.html
1•thedreammachine•12m ago•0 comments

md-whispr

https://twitter.com/stanlalanne/status/2086675864276566196
1•sharpshootersl•15m ago•1 comments

AI Coding Clients Are Reading Each Other's Personal Instructions

https://runtimewire.com/article/ai-coding-clients-are-reading-each-other-s-personal-instructions
1•ryanmerket•18m ago•0 comments

Copy-paste email templates for chasing overdue invoices

https://invoice-email-template.surge.sh/
1•lmv_builds•23m ago•0 comments

Take-home assessments to be banned in school AI overhaul

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/take-home-assessments-to-be-banned-in-radical-hsc-overhaul-20...
1•Alien1Being•23m ago•0 comments

HCCL: Collective Communication for Meta Training and Inference Accelerators

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00358
1•matt_d•24m ago•0 comments

Migrate from GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) to Vercel Container Registry (VCR)

https://vercel.com/kb/guide/migrate-ghcr-to-vcr
1•flashbrew•24m ago•0 comments

Docker Compose concepts map to Vercel

https://vercel.com/kb/guide/docker-compose-concepts-on-vercel
1•flashbrew•25m ago•0 comments

Training neural nets on Apple Neural Engine via reverse-engineered private APIs

https://github.com/maderix/ANE
1•dyzone•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Blueferry, iMessage on Linux

https://github.com/erikwb/blueferry
2•erikwb•31m ago•0 comments

The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI

https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/08/06/the-philippines-big-offshoring-industry-is-growing-desp...
3•nlpnerd•31m ago•1 comments

A second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/wellington-second-hand-book-store-s-mysterious-orders
2•tigerlily•33m ago•0 comments

The Rise of the Unstoppable American Tourist

https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-rise-of-the-unstoppable-american-tourist-485f025b
1•thm•36m ago•0 comments

How do programming languages impact token efficiency and correctness?

https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/
1•matt_d•40m ago•0 comments

As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing

https://apnews.com/article/vintage-computers-silicon-valley-technology-apple-history-43d28a08d77c...
2•geox•44m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: TS Compiler

3•apple_george•48m ago•0 comments

Trellis – A Workspace Management Tool for Multi-Package Gleam Projects

https://github.com/tylerbutler/trellis
3•TheWiggles•50m ago•0 comments

Spy cameras on Navy drones sent data to China

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/09/spy-cameras-on-navy-drones-secretly-sent-data-to-chin...
4•NewCzech•53m ago•0 comments

New AI models still reproduce racial and gender stereotypes in medicine

https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2026/08/09/new-ai-models-still-reproduce-racial-and-gender-ster...
4•giuliomagnifico•54m ago•1 comments

Harry Potter fans force diversion of power link to avoid 'Dobby's grave'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8mgpl27dpo
2•pibaker•57m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is this normal HN ranking?

2•unclebucknasty•59m ago•1 comments

Long-Run Effects of H-1B Immigration on the U.S. Economy (July 2026)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35560
24•ryzvonusef•1h ago•3 comments

Daily global sea surface temperatures break records for the time of year

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-marine-and-copernicus-climate-change-daily-global-sea-su...
4•jacquesm•1h ago•0 comments

Horolog – a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Reclaim.ai

https://github.com/ujjwalredd/horolog
2•ujjwalreddyks•1h ago•0 comments

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code

https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code
46•sbehere•1h ago•7 comments

DisplayWave: A simple and free tool for Mac external monitor control

https://github.com/kah-ve/DisplayWave
2•warpbin•1h ago•1 comments

Negative-Interest Tech Debt

https://jesseduffield.com/Negative-interest-tech-debt/
2•Tomte•1h ago•0 comments

FieldFleet – a self-hostable field operations platform

https://taskfleetai.github.io/fieldfleet/
2•iguardo•1h ago•0 comments