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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 :)

The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Instantiate Consciousness

https://philarchive.org/rec/LERTAF
1•shervinafshar•1m ago•0 comments

Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html
1•mooreds•2m ago•0 comments

Jamaicans to reap 'peace dividend' after major crime drop

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1•mooreds•2m ago•0 comments

Debt Behind the AI Boom: A Large-Scale Study of AI-Generated Code in the Wild

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28592
2•shyam_meher•6m ago•1 comments

Notes from Google Interview (Andorid/Re/CTF)

https://jeffjbowie.us/posts/android-reverse-engineering-challenge-google-trellix-interview/
2•jeffjbowie2•10m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Ejmhwb8Sc
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https://www.poppastring.com/blog/what-we-lost-the-last-time-code-got-cheap
1•speckx•11m ago•0 comments

ABC Accuses Government of Violating First Amendment

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/business/media/abc-fcc-first-amendment-the-view.html
5•vrganj•12m ago•0 comments

Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house

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3•bryan0•13m ago•0 comments

Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users

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9•anonymousiam•18m ago•0 comments

Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64

https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/05/n64-additive-blending
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Show HN: Terminal Arcade – Side quests when agents are cooking

https://twitter.com/DavidAmal/status/2052819451259834376
2•amaldavid•20m ago•0 comments

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https://www.empirical.health/blog/lpa-lowering-medications/
1•brandonb•22m ago•0 comments

JavaScript implementation of the Knuth-Plass linebreaking algorithm

https://github.com/robertknight/tex-linebreak
2•amai•23m ago•1 comments

IatroBench: Pre-Registered Evidence of Iatrogenic Harm from AI Safety Measures

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07709
2•NavinF•27m ago•0 comments

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8•carabiner•28m ago•0 comments

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1•leef•28m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/Baukaalm/safesandbox
2•baursha•31m ago•0 comments

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Kagi English to LinkedIn Speak Translator

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https://www.useopenloom.com/
1•skramzy•38m ago•0 comments

Global Energy Innovation Index

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1•bryanrasmussen•39m ago•0 comments

[Canvas] Security Incident Update and FAQs

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https://archive.org/details/pb120-us
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Everyone gets faster writes: We turned off FPW's in Neon [PostgreSQL]

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1•aluxian•42m ago•0 comments

Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

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5•CrankyBear•42m ago•1 comments

Ice Cream Blending (1965) [pdf]

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/generalInfo/E20-0156-0_Linear_Programming_-_Ice_Cream_Blending.pdf
1•ok123456•42m ago•0 comments