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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•11mo ago

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kuberwastaken•11mo 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 :)

Israel kills two UNICEF water truck drivers in Gaza

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-unicef-killing-two-water-truck-drivers-gaza-strip-0
1•lr0•2m ago•0 comments

_Generic Printf() in Standard C23

https://codeberg.org/Flying-Toast/gprintf
1•flying-toast•12m ago•0 comments

Kazakhstan still relies on its ageing industrial giants

https://mondediplo.com/2026/04/14kazakhstan
1•JumpCrisscross•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: How Are You-elderly fall detection app I built solo with AI in 6 months

1•sminchev•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Roman fable about a PHP suite that exposed 100 tables in 3 days

https://marius-ciclistu.medium.com/list/the-api-grand-prix-486dc1becb36
1•marius-ciclistu•15m ago•0 comments

Mysterious figure has summited Sphere in Las Vegas: It appears it's Alex Honnold

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/alex-honnold-sphere-las-vegas-22212813.php
1•bookofjoe•15m ago•1 comments

A Chrome extension that redesigns Hacker News in an editorial style

https://github.com/puppe1990/redesign-hacker-news
1•puppe1990•16m ago•0 comments

A Hidden Language: The Meaning of Semaphore

https://www.offshoresupply.co.uk/blog/a-hidden-language-the-meaning-of-semaphore/
1•Eridanus2•17m ago•0 comments

Observability Stack – AI First?

1•jblake•29m ago•0 comments

Any Color You Like: NIST Scientists Create 'Any Wavelength' Lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength...
2•rbanffy•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Reliably Incorrect – explore LLM reliability with data visualizations

https://adamsohn.com/reliably-incorrect/
2•dataviz1000•31m ago•1 comments

The Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists Discover

https://www.404media.co/the-destroyed-remnants-of-a-lost-world-are-falling-to-earth-scientists-di...
2•Brajeshwar•34m ago•0 comments

Vynly an AI-only social feed with provenance checks (beta)

https://vynly.co
1•nftdude2024•35m ago•0 comments

SDF Public Access Unix System

https://sdf.org/?ssh
2•neehao•36m ago•0 comments

Open-source Firecracker microVM orchestrator

https://github.com/sahil-shubham/bhatti
2•davidcollantes•37m ago•0 comments

Tinypki: Easy to use software for local CA/PKI management

https://github.com/icedevml/tinypki
1•msm_•39m ago•0 comments

Eating more fruits and vegetables tied to unexpected lung cancer risk

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260417224454.htm
1•amichail•40m ago•0 comments

How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ front end infrastructure in Rust

https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2026/04/17/how-and-why-we-rewrote-our-production-c-frontend-inf...
2•maxloh•41m ago•0 comments

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html
2•weaksauce•42m ago•0 comments

Wishes for Ron Conway

https://om.co/2026/04/18/wishes-for-ron-conway/
3•rmason•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Coelanox – auditable inference runtime in Rust (BERT runs today)

https://www.coelanox.com/
1•Shark1n4Suit•47m ago•0 comments

The largest collection of black markers

https://www.prune.dirt.fyi/p/prune-getting-high-on-your-own-supply
2•zeech•48m ago•0 comments

Nuke Engineer Rants

https://nukerants.fi/index.php/cover
3•DamonHD•49m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/i-too-have-a-production-story-a-downtime-caused-by-post...
5•tcp_handshaker•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tool that reads 2000 health studies a day so you dont have to

https://www.polivora.com
1•ledil•56m ago•3 comments

Shiplog – Push changelogs from your terminal or let AI write them

https://shiplog.page/
1•EgorNaumenko•56m ago•0 comments

How Unique Are Mythos's Hacking Capabilities?

https://jonathanpgabor.substack.com/p/how-unique-are-mythoss-hacking-capabilities
1•BenPace•57m ago•1 comments

How Long Can You Keep Peptides After Reconstitution?

https://www.robustenough.com/p/psychedelics-arent-just-serotonin
1•BenPace•58m ago•0 comments

Why Do LLMs Suck at Editing?

https://lifeimprovementschemes.substack.com/p/why-do-llms-suck-at-editing
1•BenPace•58m ago•2 comments

How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

https://crescita.cc/
2•modelcroissant•1h ago•1 comments