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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 :)

Screenless Smartphone Patent

https://carsafe.org/soundmode/
2•ASFsound•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Modular – drop AI features into your app with two function calls

https://modular.run
4•modular_dev•13m ago•1 comments

The race to build the next WordPress

https://opencomputer.dev/blog/the-race-to-build-the-next-wordpress/
4•iacguy•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a local Elixir/Python pipeline to curate 14,000 RAW photos

https://qwelian.com/posts/FINE_SHYT_Intelligent_Curation_Tagging_for_Creative_Workflows
1•qweliantanner•16m ago•0 comments

How to Set Up OneBusAway Maglev with Bay Area Transit Data

https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/setting-up-maglev-bay-area-transit-data/
1•aaronbrethorst•17m ago•0 comments

Linux Foundation: Building a RISC-V CPU Core (LFD111x)

https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/building-a-riscv-cpu-core-lfd111x/
1•xlmnxp•18m ago•0 comments

Humanoid robots race runners at Beijing half marathon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnCfMRhbhZQ
1•mgh2•23m ago•0 comments

Electric Wind-Up Plane Uses Supercapacitors for Free Flight Fun

https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/electric-wind-up-plane-uses-supercapacitors-for-free-flight-fun/
1•lxm•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Self-healing browser harness via direct CDP

https://github.com/browser-use/browser-harness
1•gregpr07•23m ago•0 comments

A minimally speaking autistic man just wrote a best-selling book. Or did he?

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/04/who-really-wrote-autistic-author-woody-brown-novel/686814/
1•xuojbi•25m ago•0 comments

Mixture-of-Depths Attention

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15619
2•neehao•26m ago•1 comments

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/
1•twapi•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vitals – Score your financial health and explain what the numbers mean

https://myfinance-vitals.streamlit.app/
1•pavanhebli•42m ago•0 comments

The Rise of the Outcome Engineer

https://www.outcomeops.ai/blogs/the-rise-of-the-outcome-engineer
3•geetee•47m ago•0 comments

B2B (bot-to-bot) commerce FAQ

https://dialtoneapp.com/faq
1•fcpguru•47m ago•0 comments

Why Birds Were the Only Dinosaurs to Survive Mass Extinction

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-asteroid-extinguished-all-the-dinosaurs-except-for-...
4•bryanrasmussen•50m ago•2 comments

The next segment of California's solar canal initiative

https://bsky.app/profile/dustinmulvaney.bsky.social/post/3mjtcite7qk2s
1•mooreds•50m ago•0 comments

From Worm to Human: Scaling Brain Emulation

https://pdf.isaak.net/scaling-emulations
1•andreygrehov•50m ago•0 comments

Financial aid letters aren't designed to be compared. That's the problem

https://www.dakhila.ai/blog/financial-aid-letters-arent-designed-to-be-compared
1•mayankbansal10•52m ago•0 comments

The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

https://localscribe.co/posts/uncanny-valley-and-rising-power-of-anti-ai-sentiment/
2•jcbritton•54m ago•0 comments

Why one of the largest digital banks chose Clojure [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pleo1VA9D70
4•amb135cm•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: I Spy AI – Detect AI-Generated Images, with an MCP Server

https://www.ispyai.io/
1•shawhunterm•1h ago•0 comments

Moon-joy: they should have sent a poet (so they did)

https://nothingbutawordbag.substack.com/p/moon-joy-they-should-have-sent-a
1•bryanrasmussen•1h ago•0 comments

Canada's PM calls economic ties with US a weakness that must be corrected

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3•jmward01•1h ago•1 comments

OpenEMIS-MCP – human English (or Arabic) queries over a school system

1•drkhindol•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

https://juanpabloaj.com/2026/04/16/a-lightweight-way-to-make-agents-talk-without-paying-for-api-u...
2•juanpabloaj•1h ago•0 comments

Go news Android app revamped with the help of Claude Code

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minaandrawos.golangnews&hl=en_US
2•minaandrawos•1h ago•1 comments

Corner-Case RCU Implementations

https://people.kernel.org/paulmck/stupid-rcu-tricks-corner-case-rcu-implementations
1•luu•1h ago•0 comments

Bank Python

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
2•Redoubts•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D running on Mac Silicon – no Nvidia GPU needed

https://github.com/shivampkumar/trellis-mac
17•shivampkumar•1h ago•0 comments