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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 :)

A Story of Screwdrivers

https://carette.xyz/posts/a_story_of_screwdriver_drivers/
1•joshmarinacci•1m ago•0 comments

Pi Security – Codex Security without all the bloat

https://github.com/Cecuro/open-security
1•GustavHartz•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: ApplyWise – I built an AI layer for the job application process

https://applywise.eu/
1•peter_nemec•2m ago•0 comments

Truth Without Reconciliation – Boston Review

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/truth-without-reconciliation/
1•rbanffy•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Is AI Dumber Today? An index of AI model experience from user's opinion

https://isaidumber.today/
1•schafberg•3m ago•1 comments

Decelerate AI by using Capitalism Itself, lower p(doom)

https://jperla.com/blog/the-data-tax
1•ljlolel•3m ago•0 comments

Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-aging-may-be-a-program-not-a-breakdown-20260814/
1•defrost•3m ago•0 comments

Integrated optical isolators for broadband multi-laser operation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-026-01978-0
1•bookofjoe•3m ago•0 comments

Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor: Make security and privacy the default

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/08/devs-to-anthropic-openai-cursor-and-friends-make...
1•guddin•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: GridProof – spacing/grid QA for AI-generated UIs, in the agent loop

https://github.com/gridproof/gridproof
1•seomarlboro•5m ago•0 comments

Local code search engine for reference coding

https://xerj.org/
1•LeonidBugaev•5m ago•1 comments

More and more wealthy Californians seek 'golden visa' residency outside the US

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-13/more-more-wealthy-californians-are-seeking-go...
1•iamnothere•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Atlas – like GeoGuessr but multiple choice, daily, no sign-up

https://wild.space/atlas
1•Wilson2000•7m ago•0 comments

Phone addiction is keeping you from achieving flow state [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHd-luu3M8s
2•felooboolooomba•13m ago•0 comments

Code is the hard part

https://bbuyukliev.blogspot.com/2026/08/code-is-hard-part.html
2•bluetomcat•13m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?

1•mojomark•14m ago•1 comments

OSS WebUI Llms.py v4: Projects, Agent Profiles, PDF Studio, RAG

https://llmspy.org/docs/latest
1•mythz•14m ago•0 comments

Curl Performance Tests

https://curl.se/perf/
1•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Manager Blueprint

https://manager-blueprint.vercel.app
1•edimaudo•15m ago•0 comments

Coinbase eng lead on how they build with agents (video by Linear)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvwE9XpNXOI
1•ioanarebeca•16m ago•0 comments

Free of GitHub

https://carette.xyz/posts/free-of-github/
1•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Will factory farming fix itself?

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/will-factory-farming-fix-itself
1•devitoria•18m ago•0 comments

US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/14/us-courts-will-start-publishing-how-often-the-government-uses-s...
2•speckx•18m ago•0 comments

Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02730-w
1•leonidasv•19m ago•0 comments

An Airport Sat Empty for $1.1M a Day

https://julienreszka.com/blog/an-airport-sat-empty-for-1-1-million-a-day/
1•julienreszka•19m ago•0 comments

I'm done coding with AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZU3j4GQ4K8
1•franzb•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a website from 57,000+ US 401(k) plans from government filings

https://401kmonitor.com/
1•vincentjouanne•21m ago•0 comments

Minerals Companies Are Changing Their Names to Sound More American

https://www.wsj.com/business/minerals-companies-are-changing-their-names-to-sound-more-american-4...
1•impish9208•22m ago•1 comments

Evaluating how models perform using live traffic

https://labs.notion.com/knowledge-board
1•mschoening•22m ago•0 comments

The War Between Open Source, Open Weight, and Closed AI Models

https://www.nextplatform.com/ai/2026/08/13/the-war-between-open-source-open-weight-and-closed-ai-...
2•jonbaer•23m ago•0 comments