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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 :)

Israeli jets flew to Iran's border in what US suspects was a bid to provoke Iran

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-21-2026/
1•bhouston•33s ago•0 comments

A Vote Tomorrow Could Ban Horse Carriages in Central Park

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/nyregion/horse-carriage-ban-city-council.html
1•geox•42s ago•0 comments

Top AI Agent Skills for Building Live Streaming Apps

https://www.red5.net/blog/ai-agent-skills-live-streaming-app-development/
1•mondainx•1m ago•0 comments

The Immigration Enforcement Hydra Without a Kill Switch

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-immigration-enforcement-hydra-without-a-kill-switch
1•hn_acker•1m ago•0 comments

Rooftop Koreans saved neighborhoods in 1992 LA Riots, protected by 2nd amendment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooftop_Koreans
1•khelavastr•2m ago•0 comments

What Goes Quant Next?

https://faintsignals.substack.com/p/what-goes-quant-next
1•jbredeche•3m ago•0 comments

Archestra 1.4: OpenAPPA and Self Hosted Runtime for Claude Code and Codex

https://github.com/archestra-ai/archestra/releases/tag/platform-v1.4.0
8•ildari•5m ago•0 comments

English and the Interpreter

https://ctx-lab.com/field-notes/english-and-the-interpreter/
1•feisal•6m ago•0 comments

Trajecktory, an open-source, local-first job search dashboard

https://github.com/michaelinghilterra-creator/trajecktory
1•michaelinghilte•6m ago•0 comments

With AI coding the future of software development looks more grim

https://unixdigest.com/articles/with-ai-coding-the-future-of-software-development-looks-more-grim...
1•bitbasher•6m ago•0 comments

Blocking the Internet Archive Will Not Stop AI [Brewster Kahle]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/blocking-internet-archive-will-not-stop-ai/689065/
2•bookofjoe•6m ago•1 comments

MoreSo – A photo record of your skin that shows what your products do

https://moresohealth.com
1•chancebeyer•7m ago•0 comments

Anthropic posts $80B loss in first half of 2026

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/21/anthropic-posts-80bn-loss-in-first-half-of-2026-wsj
2•AnodicElegy•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moodly – A free mood tracker that keeps entries in the browser

https://mood-tracker.org/
1•liweipt•8m ago•0 comments

Haskell Language Server 2.15.0.0

https://blog.haskell.org/hls-2-15-0-0/
1•andrewstetsenko•8m ago•0 comments

SilkStack – Local ComfyUI image browser with on-device semantic search

https://github.com/skkut/SilkStack-Image-Browser
1•skkdk•10m ago•0 comments

In Context – Rich Hickey (Clojure/Conj 2026) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5eO7BNyJao
1•uh1•10m ago•0 comments

CorridorKey 2.0: Neural green and blue screen keyer

https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey2.0
1•harkh•11m ago•0 comments

Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6156511-trump-calls-netanyahu-peace-partner/
7•handfuloflight•11m ago•1 comments

Meta fined $25B for 'lies' over user data privacy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqdr8zxrr3dxo
8•jethronethro•12m ago•0 comments

Meta Ordered to Pay $25B for Deceiving Users on Privacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/technology/meta-penalty-new-mexico.html
10•pseudolus•13m ago•3 comments

Most Improbable Agent of You

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/most-improbable-agent-of-you
1•thm•17m ago•0 comments

Is Proprietary Software Over?

https://eventuallymaking.io/p/is-proprietary-software-over
3•speckx•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Aw-1 – Deterministic AST circuit breaker and kernel jail for AI agents

https://github.com/MvikManners/aw1-circuit-breaker
1•MvikVela•18m ago•0 comments

Meta Ordered to Pay $25B for Deceiving Users on Privacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/technology/meta-penalty-new-mexico.htmlndr
5•PLenz•18m ago•0 comments

Trump says AI data centres should pay 'dividends' in pre-midterm shift

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/21/trump-says-ai-data-centres-should-pay-dividends-in-pre-...
7•devonnull•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are your favourite "labour of love" projects?

1•donchuru•20m ago•0 comments

Presented by Stripe

https://stratechery.com/2026/presented-by-stripe/
4•tangled•22m ago•0 comments

Can AI Reliably Estimate Macros from Photos?

https://blog.gopfert.eu/ai-macros-from-photos
1•jangop•24m ago•1 comments

Lamentation on AI in Mathematical Research

https://isohedral.ca/lamentation-on-ai-in-mathematical-research/
1•speckx•25m ago•0 comments