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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 :)

Flock: A Flock of Birds in the Browser

https://nicobrenner.github.io/flock/
1•nico•3m ago•0 comments

Are you preparing them to be replaced?

https://ghuntley.com/replaced/
1•santiago-pl•6m ago•0 comments

X Is Bad, Though

https://lexontech.org/x-is-bad-though
2•ayaros•6m ago•0 comments

He Went Out on an Epic Wilderness Adventure. Only His Dogs Came Back

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/10/magazine/steffen-skjottelvik-canada-journey-death....
2•anarbadalov•17m ago•0 comments

Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac

https://crestbrowser.com/
1•cobychapple•20m ago•0 comments

Two Hills: Weights and Harnesses

https://rlafuente.com/posts/2026-10-11-agent-evals-1-two-hills.html
2•andes314•30m ago•0 comments

So why not?

https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/06/so-why-not.html
1•gjvc•30m ago•0 comments

Glassmarchy – I Built an Omarchy Sea Glass Theme

https://github.com/amazedsaint/glassmarchy
1•amazedsaint•31m ago•0 comments

SpeedyIndex

https://en.speedyindex.com/
1•victordobroff•34m ago•0 comments

What a swordfish washing up on British Columbia's coast says changing oceans

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-swordfish-british-columbia-coast-oceans.html
2•neom•37m ago•0 comments

Xerox PARC chip shatters on command

https://techxplore.com/news/2015-09-xerox-parc-chip-shatters-shards.html
6•gurjeet•40m ago•1 comments

Finding "hidden" Blizzard news feeds

https://vildravn.eu/posts/wow-forever-news-api/
1•rdmuser•47m ago•0 comments

Solving "who said what" across conversations (IEEE SLT 2026)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39344
2•siddsax•47m ago•1 comments

Gh-pull – A local GitHub PR dashboard using your existing CLI login

https://github.com/shiqicao/gh-pull
2•shiqicao•53m ago•0 comments

Pizza in North Korea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_in_North_Korea
6•axbac•55m ago•0 comments

Kev

https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/introducing-kev
3•gmays•56m ago•0 comments

Sorry we made you grind LeetCode

https://www.hackerrank.com/writing/why-were-sorry
19•ishanz•1h ago•22 comments

Show HN: Make Okular safer with a sandboxed MuPDF backend

https://github.com/l4rzy/okular-mupdf-ng
3•rzy•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Skills Hub, a desktop app for managing AI agent skills

https://github.com/qufei1993/skills-hub
5•qufei1993•1h ago•1 comments

Flow state, the dinner rush and AI brain fry

https://jamespember.substack.com/p/flow-state-the-dinner-rush-and-ai
1•jep888•1h ago•0 comments

Can Decision Models (Like Jev) Plan Ahead?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kE4pbmwzdgmFx2RFo/can-decision-models-like-jev-plan-ahead
3•kp1197•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Writing a Game in C

https://podule.com.au/posts/building-in-c/
3•gt0•1h ago•0 comments

Website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news 'correspondents'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/artificial-intelligence-indigenous-journalists-9.7345554
4•Teever•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seal one sentence into a 3D star-sea,permanently anchored on Arweave

https://memlife.me
2•woailuo•1h ago•0 comments

Console market craters: Xbox sales drop 33%, PS5 sales drop 25%

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4•Gaishan•1h ago•3 comments

Timekeepers to vote on ditching the leap second

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-10-12/we-may-be-about-to-lose-the-leap-second-for-good/1...
5•Gaishan•1h ago•0 comments

Rightwing/Pro Trump bot traffic stop after Ukraine strikes on Russia datacenters

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly...
15•fullstacking•1h ago•0 comments

Lotus Improv on the NeXT

https://stonetools.ghost.io/lotusimprov-next/
6•ChristopherDrum•1h ago•1 comments

Orion2 Redone: A Master of Orion II Restoration Project

https://github.com/orion2re/orion2re
1•joecarpenter•1h ago•0 comments

Do dentists know what they're doing?

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists
5•doitLP•1h ago•0 comments