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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 :)

The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11873
1•pella•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: What Just Pinged Me?

https://whatjustpingedme.com
1•furyofantares•4m ago•0 comments

China Cleantech Exports Data Explorer

https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-explorer/
2•Bluestein•4m ago•0 comments

Byte: A Visual Archive

https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198410-011
2•doener•6m ago•0 comments

Mees AI Journal and Chat

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chat.meesai.net&hl=en_US
2•saidevac•15m ago•0 comments

Slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/08/this-is-dangerous-slime-moulds-and-th...
1•bookofjoe•17m ago•0 comments

Portable Cooling Mister and Bonus Stationary Pet Version

https://www.instructables.com/Portable-Cooling-Mister-Bonus-Stationary-Pet-Versi/
1•sudo_cowsay•17m ago•0 comments

Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jdp38z4jgo
1•6LLvveMx2koXfwn•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made an automated day-by-day itinerary organizer for my trip to Spain

https://petrelvoyage.com/app
3•desktopentree•22m ago•2 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
3•Cider9986•22m ago•0 comments

There's No Such Thing as an AI 'Lab'

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/stop-calling-ai-companies-labs/688528/
3•Bluestein•26m ago•0 comments

Destockd

https://www.destockd.com/#/about
2•DeepLogin•28m ago•0 comments

The Hidden Software Variable in UAS Performance

https://foxandlion.pub/analysis/the-hidden-software-variable-in-uas-performance
7•agrantic•30m ago•0 comments

A malleable IDE for typed knowledge

https://github.com/arsumbris/arsumbris
2•arscontexta•34m ago•1 comments

What are the five pros and cons of artificial intelligence?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/13/what-are-the-five-pros-and-cons-of-artificial-intelligence
4•jethronethro•37m ago•0 comments

The Human Use of Human Beings - Norbert Wiener (1989) [pdf]

https://monoskop.org/images/6/60/Wiener_Norbert_The_Human_Use_of_Human_Beings_1989.pdf
4•andsoitis•40m ago•0 comments

I think of time as an arrow, so I made a linear calendar

https://theawesomecalendar.com/en
1•maksonam•42m ago•3 comments

Expanding model choice in Copilot with Grok

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-copilot-blog/expanding-model-choice-in-copilot...
2•andsoitis•44m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files?

2•mehmetoguzderin•46m ago•2 comments

BluBeam Pro

https://blubeam.pro/
2•alexawilder•47m ago•1 comments

DuckDB 2.0 Pushes Whole Queries Through ADBC–10–11× Faster on PostgreSQL

https://query.farm/blog/one-query-one-arrow-stream-adbc-duckdb-2/
2•rustyconover•55m ago•0 comments

Why is privacy so hard?

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-is-privacy-so-hard/
4•andsoitis•55m ago•3 comments

Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance?

6•spottedmarley•56m ago•2 comments

Show HN: SF Title Alert

https://sftitlealert.com
2•arkadiyt•57m ago•0 comments

What Is Wrong with Nike?

https://www.s-1.site/s/the-middle-market-focus-verticals.html
3•anthonybourdain•57m ago•0 comments

SCH: An affordable sandbox for Coding Agents in your AWS account

https://c-daniele.github.io/en/posts/2026-09-07-close-the-lid-serverless-coding-harness/
3•cdani•58m ago•0 comments

The Outrageous Collapse of a 'Montessori Ponzi'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/business/guidepost-montessori-higher-ground-education-ray-girn...
3•sciurus•1h ago•1 comments

Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
97•u1hcw9nx•1h ago•21 comments

Veilid is an open-source, peer-to-peer application framework

https://veilid.com/
4•Bluestein•1h ago•0 comments

AI Is Destroying the World

https://gornak40.org/blog/ai-is-destroying-the-world.html
13•Gornak40•1h ago•3 comments