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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•7mo ago

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kuberwastaken•7mo 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 :)

Americans are hungry for community. So why don't we have European-style squares?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/travel/europe-public-squares-american-development
1•rawgabbit•3m ago•0 comments

Speech to text model for healthcare-based voice applications

https://huggingface.co/google/medasr
1•tzury•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Spelling Bee Trainer

https://spell2.netlify.app/
1•rahimnathwani•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SHA-256 quasi-collision with 184/256 matching bits

https://github.com/POlLLOGAMER/SHA-256-Colision-Finder-NEW.ipynb/blob/main/Base_Version/SHA_256_C...
1•KaoruAK•7m ago•0 comments

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results 'at an astonishing scale'

https://www.theverge.com/news/848365/google-scraper-lawsuit-serpapi
1•tzury•8m ago•0 comments

What Is Threads Trends Tool?

1•Tech_News_Daily•8m ago•0 comments

24h with an experienced eng/designer and Opus 4.5

https://make.zen2.ai/
1•kwcto•9m ago•1 comments

What the Smartest Minds Think About AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-conference-neurips-ff6398df
1•jonbaer•13m ago•0 comments

Making Aircrete with kitchen ingredients [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4_GxPHwqkA
2•ludicrousdispla•18m ago•0 comments

Redactle #1354

https://redactle.net/1354
1•brikym•20m ago•0 comments

How AI agents will transform the way we work in 2026

https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ai-business-trends-report-2026/
1•achow•25m ago•0 comments

daff: align and compare tables

https://github.com/paulfitz/daff
2•indigodaddy•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BananaSlice – free Generative Fill alternative using Nano Banana

https://github.com/IrfanulM/BananaSlice
1•irfanul•34m ago•0 comments

Maestro Cross-Platform Desktop Agent Orchestrator (Free/OSS)

https://github.com/pedramamini/Maestro
1•pedramamini•45m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ganttchart-webviz – Web-based Gantt chart generator

https://github.com/altilunium/ganttchart-webviz
1•altilunium•47m ago•0 comments

Flock Said It Does Not Use Dark Web Data. Code Analysis Tells a Different Story

https://nexanet.ai/blog/license-plate-reader-company-flock-said-it-does-not-use-dark-web-data-my-...
6•defrost•48m ago•0 comments

NitroGen: Unified vision-to-action model designed to play video games

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NitroGen
2•intelkishan•55m ago•0 comments

Kebabs, biryani and more: Indian city on UNESCO culinary list

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyp8erjp82o
1•koolhead17•1h ago•1 comments

Seattle's Delivery Minimum Wage Failed Drivers and Raised Costs

https://reason.com/2025/12/20/seattles-delivery-minimum-wage-failed-drivers-and-raised-costs/
2•mhb•1h ago•0 comments

The Machine Stops [pdf]

https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
2•morpheos137•1h ago•0 comments

ModRetro announces Anduril-themed Gameboy Clone

https://modretro.com/products/anduril-chromatic-porta-pro-bundle
1•jscottmiller•1h ago•1 comments

Day 2 of Building ScrapeForge

1•Vishwas-Batra•1h ago•0 comments

TikTok Says Chinese Owner Will Retain Core US Business

https://www.ft.com/content/7a778d46-8bf8-4b11-af4e-5e5bd891cb9d
3•sarimkx•1h ago•1 comments

Performance trick: optimistic vs. pessimistic checks

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/20/performance-trick-optimistic-vs-pessimistic-checks/
1•tuananh•1h ago•0 comments

Marriott App Now Prompts You to Tip Staff – So Hotels Can Cut Wage Costs

https://viewfromthewing.com/marriott-app-now-prompts-you-to-tip-staff-so-hotels-can-cut-wage-costs/
12•cwwc•1h ago•3 comments

Luna NFC/RFID Poker Cards

https://electricks.info/product/luna-nfc-rfid-poker-cards/
2•gregsadetsky•1h ago•0 comments

How capacity hints work in Go

https://www.grobinson.net/2023/09/30/how-capacity-hints-work-in-go/
1•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

Wordiest: Android APK ported to iOS by ChatGPT 5.2

https://blog.fsck.com/2025/12/20/wordiest/
2•cpeterso•1h ago•0 comments

Disc-shaped satellite design offers unmatched power-to-weight ratio

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/heres-why-nasa-and-the-space-force-are-interested-in-pizz...
1•walterbell•1h ago•0 comments

David Budden claims end-to-end Lean proof of Navier-Stokes

https://twitter.com/davidmbudden/status/2002474422431564247
4•delichon•1h ago•0 comments