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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 :)

Interpreting Pangram

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/14/interpreting-pangram/
1•notracks•1m ago•0 comments

Tuning a Local Coding Agent: Oh My Pi and Qwen3.8-27B on Two RTX 3090s

https://doug.sh/posts/tuning-a-local-coding-agent-oh-my-pi/
1•dougcalobrisi•1m ago•0 comments

25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier]

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough
1•mdp2021•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ScaleUp City Simulator

https://city.scaleupcto.com/
1•robotrobot•2m ago•0 comments

GDScript: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts

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

The Misery of Mechanistic Interpretability: A Formal Perspective

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15533
1•sbulaev•3m ago•0 comments

Sievepad: Write and debug Sieve scripts in the browser

https://sievepad.com/
1•StalwartLabs•4m ago•1 comments

Migrata – declarative Postgres migrations using plain SQL as the source of truth

https://migrata.io/blog/meet-migrata
2•ndortega•6m ago•1 comments

Linux Doctor – read-only health checks that explain what's wrong

https://github.com/zShaD0w7x/linux-doctor
2•7sh1d0w7x•7m ago•0 comments

The Complete Guide to Codex

https://flaviocopes.com/codex/
2•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Public Browser – a Chrome MCP server with ~40% fewer tool calls

https://github.com/Silbercue/public-browser
1•silbercue•7m ago•0 comments

We timed 65 DynamoDB PITR restores. You can't predict the 66th

https://www.thisandthat.chat/blog/how-long-a-dynamodb-restore-takes/
1•jreynar•7m ago•0 comments

AntFlow AI: Spec-Driven Agentic Development

https://geekyants.com/antflow-ai
1•Harish_0089•7m ago•0 comments

I fixed my DevOps mistakes with AI

https://flaviocopes.com/devops-mistakes-ai/
2•ibobev•8m ago•0 comments

Comparing Values with CSS Progress()

https://blog.master.dev/comparing-values-with-css-progress/
1•ibobev•8m ago•0 comments

OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/14/openai-buys-smartphone-camera-maker-glass-imaging-for-300-milli...
3•myth_drannon•9m ago•0 comments

Computer, Call Jordan

https://calljordanmygrandsonjordan.com/
1•carlos-menezes•9m ago•0 comments

An Antifragile (Barbell) Education [pdf]

https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/education.pdf
1•upxx•10m ago•0 comments

Suchir Balaji's Homepage

https://suchir.net/
3•Bluestein•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Whodis – Domain investigation suite (WHOIS, DNS, stack)

https://github.com/Alex9001/whodis
1•vedmed•11m ago•0 comments

Number of 100 year olds in Japan top 100k for first time

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/15/japan/japan-centenarians-top-100000/
1•haunter•13m ago•1 comments

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash (518GB, 4-bit) on a 128GB MacBook: 2.7x prefill, 17 tok/s

https://github.com/argonautlabsai/argodrive
1•Argonautlabs•13m ago•0 comments

Data dive: The revolving door between Whitehall and big tech

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366650387/Data-dive-The-revolving-door-between-Whitehall-and-...
1•beardyw•13m ago•0 comments

Fremont – hardware city interactive map

https://redskyforge.com/fremont/
1•davedx•14m ago•0 comments

GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released with Performance Optimizations

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.12
1•joshcsimmons•14m ago•0 comments

1Password's AI patching benchmark is misleading

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/15/1passwords-ai-patching-benchmark-is-misleading/
1•darkamaul•16m ago•0 comments

CrofAI Is an OpenRouter Wrapper

https://kendell.dev/blog/crofaifalse/
1•alexandra_au•20m ago•1 comments

OpenAI Buys Startup Developing Smartphone Camera

https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-buys-startup-developing-smartphone-camera-63590370
3•bookofjoe•21m ago•1 comments

Prompting tricks for using Claude Opus 5

https://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/prompting-tricks-for-claude-opus-5.html
1•sidewndr46•22m ago•1 comments

The new Go JSON API: twice as fast, or 1.5x slower?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/
1•bucket2015•24m ago•0 comments