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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 :)

9-year-old Minecraft YouTuber ran up a $118,000 ad bill using dad's company card

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/im-definitely-cooked-a-9-year-old-minecraft-youtuber-ran...
1•speckx•36s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is the best local model that runs on your Mac at decent speed?

1•carloslfu•5m ago•0 comments

UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon's optical illusions

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/16/uk-mathematician-debunks-myth-parthenon-optical-i...
2•pseudolus•5m ago•0 comments

A masterfully architected application for solving ANYTHING

https://the-analog-method--sophiasbookofl2.replit.app/
1•Harperissharper•5m ago•0 comments

Artificial Analysis: What Is the Intelligence Index Measuring?

https://itsmonkey.business/blogposts/01-On_Artificial_Analysis.html
1•baddash•6m ago•0 comments

GoBench: Evaluating LLMs on 9×9 Go using KataGo opponents as Elo anchors

https://rolandgao.com/blog/gobench/
1•GodelNumbering•6m ago•1 comments

Pull the best espresso shot with derivative-free optimization

https://humpday.microprediction.org/applications/espresso.html
1•timkpaine•8m ago•0 comments

An agent fleet needs a new kind of OS, not a bigger harness

https://pentad.ai/blog/fleet-needs-an-os/
3•kgcgfva•8m ago•0 comments

Iran improved targeting of US assets. How Russian satellites likely have helped

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/world/video/russia-spy-satellites-iran-intelligence-strikes-us-ass...
1•giuliomagnifico•14m ago•0 comments

Fed approves interest rate hike, signals one more to come this year

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/16/fed-rate-decision-september-2026.html
5•rawgabbit•15m ago•0 comments

Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2025/09/25/australia-asks-github-if-its-a-dangerous-social-ne...
2•docflabby•16m ago•0 comments

Jotter – A local recording and transcription tool written in Rust

https://github.com/nfishel48/Jotter
1•movingmovie•18m ago•1 comments

NASA spacecraft discovers a new crater on the moon

https://apnews.com/article/moon-lunar-crater-space-nasa-80eea242ad275fda1f7a88587cdccd2f
1•dwringer•18m ago•0 comments

Feds Want California to Give Up 14 Years of Broadband Protections. It Should Sue

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2026/09/california-is-being-asked-to-give-up-14-years-of-broad...
1•rsingel•20m ago•0 comments

Who is vertigoruntime and how do they have 3 posts on the front page rn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vertigoruntime
1•johnnyApplePRNG•20m ago•1 comments

GDScript: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts

https://azhdarchid.com/gdscript-good-bad-ugly/
3•birdculture•22m ago•0 comments

Fed Raises Rates as Warsh Bucks Trump to Contain Inflation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-16/fed-raises-rates-as-warsh-bucks-trump-to-conta...
12•toomuchtodo•24m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Real-Time Chess Assistant (C++ DirectX, OpenCV, ImGui and Stockfish)

https://github.com/rccmb/oracle
2•baptistarodrigo•24m ago•1 comments

How to Train a Frontier-Level World Model

https://next-state.github.io/open-dreamer/
3•Sacco215•25m ago•0 comments

The Oddity of Your Sneezes

https://bodilyoddities.com/blog/the-oddity-of-your-sneezes/
2•vesterde•26m ago•1 comments

Statement On V/H/S SCP Foundation Film

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/statement-on-vhs-film
3•andybak•29m ago•0 comments

First Round Capital Sales Program – Free

https://www.firstround.com/sales-combine
1•lockeluhnow•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: TabMail. Open-source AI email for Thunderbird and iPhone

https://tabmail.ai/
2•kmyi•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a router for agent tools

https://github.com/monid-ai/monid
8•Exquisitian•31m ago•2 comments

AI Safety Needs a State

https://atomstointelligence.substack.com/p/ai-safety-needs-a-state
2•abhinavsns•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pkgbot – Fast Linux package search engine

https://pkg.bot
2•knadh•33m ago•0 comments

ArXivMath and BrokenArXiv: Harder Problems and Revised Grading

https://matharena.ai/arxiv_august/
5•bluepeter•35m ago•0 comments

Every Agent Session Is a Test Run

https://mielony.com/blog/self-improvement-by-cron/
2•tkwiatek•36m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Navier-Stokes Proof Meets a New Kind of Database

https://8braid.com/journal/openai-navier-stokes-proof-meets-a-new-kind-of-database
4•ashdee•38m ago•0 comments

Can agents price a PR's impact?

https://weaveos.com/blog/can-agents-price-a-prs-impact-or-utility
3•adeland•39m ago•1 comments