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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 :)

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/startup-taps-underwater-volcano-as-energy-source-in-proof...
1•wffurr•29s ago•0 comments

The Autonomous Codebase

https://leaddev.com/software-quality/the-autonomous-codebase
1•andrewstetsenko•29s ago•0 comments

DMP-Z1: personal audio device that's neither a portable player nor a desktop one

https://www.sony-asia.com/electronics/dmp-z1-interview
1•Bluestein•2m ago•0 comments

Moonswing – A Desktop Environment for Linux in Flutter

https://github.com/miracle-wm-org/moonswing
1•matthewkosarek•3m ago•0 comments

The Novel That Inspired a Generation of Fantasy Fiction

https://standardebooks.org/blog/the-novel-that-inspired-a-generation-of-fantasy-fiction
4•billybuckwheat•6m ago•0 comments

Norwegian Company Pitches Undersea Cable Linking Can and EU to Bypass the US

https://www.gadgetreview.com/norwegian-company-pitches-2800-mile-undersea-cable-linking-canada-an...
3•Teever•8m ago•0 comments

Time to LLM Post

1•trencedamp•8m ago•1 comments

How Lego Is Getting More Adults to Tinker with Their Toy Bricks

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/lego-adult-sets-gaming-formula-one-d7ccbc9d
1•bookofjoe•9m ago•1 comments

New Walkman $5,899.99

https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders/walkman-mp3-players/p/nwwm1zm3
3•mediaeater•10m ago•3 comments

Eigenmoon: linear algebra puzzles by moonlight

https://eigenmoon.vercel.app/
2•jessicarumbelow•11m ago•1 comments

Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/trans-pacific-journey-tested-stratospheric-cell-tower-con...
1•Stratoscope•14m ago•0 comments

Clean up what your apps and agents left running

https://arpwal.github.io/leftovers/
2•arpitagarwal•14m ago•0 comments

Red Hat Engineering Director Uses AI to Tackle Linux's Undocumented Driver Woes

https://techstrong.it/featured/red-hat-engineering-director-uses-ai-to-tackle-linuxs-undocumented...
2•CrankyBear•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source app that lets LLMs control any iPhone app (no Mac required)

https://github.com/EliotAndres/iphone-use-app
1•ea016•17m ago•0 comments

Terminal Bench 4 Is Saturated

https://preferencemodel.com/blog/terminal-bench-4-is-saturated/
1•nharada•18m ago•0 comments

Homeland Security is requiring all civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek

https://twitter.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2112250754358788437
2•sergiotapia•20m ago•0 comments

One rule found a bug that TypeScript’s test suite missed.

https://breakspec.com/typescript
1•sidcraftscode•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Robotics startup with $10–12 meals delivered in SF

https://www.dailys.menu/
2•marcogh•22m ago•1 comments

Linus Torvalds' AI Code Improved: Performance Wins with Reworked Code

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Reading-Page-Cache-WO-Folio-Ref
3•maxloh•24m ago•0 comments

I made a tiny 2 MB screenshot tool for Windows (open source)

https://github.com/VahidYousefzadeh/CapChief
2•vahidce•25m ago•1 comments

Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device has Saudi backing: Prosecutor

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/19/ex-openai-employee-accused-of-planting-device-has-sa...
3•CGMthrowaway•26m ago•0 comments

Star Wars: A Russian Military Satellite Gets Within 200m of One Used by Ukraine

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-space-satellite-ukraine-finland/33879458.html
4•consumer451•29m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Silicon Fabricated on Intel 3 in Major Chip Milestone

https://hothardware.com/news/risc-v-fabbed-on-intel-3-bzl
3•fork-bomber•29m ago•0 comments

What is still hard to become good at as AI makes coding easier?

4•Bhavya031•29m ago•0 comments

The case for living in a declining superpower

https://trimmings.substack.com/p/the-case-for-living-in-a-declining
3•leontrolski•30m ago•0 comments

Minimal residual radiation (MRR) tactical nukes and strategic calculus

https://kaleidic.substack.com/p/wip-mrr-tactical-nukes-and-strategic
3•CGMthrowaway•32m ago•0 comments

I built a crane robot to clean my house [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsL1EHt5iBY
5•strstr•32m ago•0 comments

AnkiGen – in-browser generation of Anki decks between any two languages

https://xenohunter.github.io/ankigen/
3•xenohunter•34m ago•3 comments

Rendro – fills in security questionnaires from your own docs, Excel intact

https://www.rendro.net
2•itslupichuk•35m ago•0 comments

What's New in Firefox 158

https://www.firefox.com/en-GB/whatsnew/158/
4•dotcoma•37m ago•0 comments