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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 :)

Dark mode for Medium is finally here

https://medium.engineering/dark-mode-was-never-on-our-roadmap-heres-how-it-got-built-b8e0a54c1d12
1•tontonius•2m ago•0 comments

'VPNs at Risk': Tech Coalition Pushes Back on Piracy Blocking Duties for VPNs

https://torrentfreak.com/vpns-at-risk-tech-coalition-pushes-back-on-piracy-blocking-duties-for-vpns/
2•gslin•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tab-completion for the DeepSeek Harness composer

https://github.com/Stijnus/dsh-composer-predictions
1•stijnus•6m ago•0 comments

The Founder Purity test is a measure of how much founder experience you have

https://john.fun/founderpurity
1•pghqdev•7m ago•0 comments

How Generative AI Is Scaling Transnational Repression

https://www.justsecurity.org/159245/how-generative-ai-scaling-transnational-repression/
3•pluc•7m ago•0 comments

Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages

https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-is-slow-because-of-bad-design-not-slow-languages/
2•speckx•8m ago•0 comments

The Greatest Psychedelic Discovery You've Never Heard of [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZSraGWiOSE
1•binyu•8m ago•0 comments

See how many tickets NYC officials get, and whether they pay

https://www.carmula.com/nyc-car-tax/
1•knicker•9m ago•0 comments

Cloud Penetration Testing Vs.Cloud Security Assessment:Which Checklist You Need?

1•kunal9955•9m ago•0 comments

The Hibernate Origin Story (Outsider Edition)

https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/23/hibernate-origin-story
1•joshcsimmons•10m ago•0 comments

Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now

https://spectrum.ieee.org/blood-draw-robot-vitestro-aletta
1•donk8r•11m ago•0 comments

AI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next

https://www.404media.co/php2shell-black-october-ai-is-changing-everything-about-hacking-no-one-kn...
1•_tk_•12m ago•0 comments

iPhone Duo Jailbreak

https://twitter.com/calif_io/status/2113570095549337977
1•commandersaki•13m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Papers made effortless today – photograph a letter, get a to-do card

https://paper.effortless.today/
1•harisingh1612•15m ago•0 comments

AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/14/ai-and-its-main-promoters-are-not-enterprise-rea...
3•donk8r•16m ago•1 comments

How to do ambitious things with AI (parent friendly)

https://dhruvagoyal.com/blog/how-to-do-ambitious-things-with-ai-parent-friendly/
2•dhruvagoyal•21m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Parallax Hidden Objects Game

https://igoryakunin.itch.io/hollowmere
1•ibackstrom•21m ago•0 comments

Learning About Unix Community Through "A Research Unix Reader"

https://playtechnique.io/long/a-research-unix-reader.html
1•gwynforthewyn•22m ago•1 comments

Why Listening to Audiobooks at Normal Speed Is a Waste of Time

https://thatjournalingguy.substack.com/p/why-listening-to-audiobooks-at-normal
1•austinallegro•22m ago•2 comments

Show HN: FattyURL–Open URL shortener with bulk migration and non-expiring links

https://fattyurl.com/
1•kaushalkhodifad•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: L4ES – verifiable Linux microVMs powered by seL4

https://l4es.dev/
2•losfair•23m ago•0 comments

Poly – A human readable programming language for Coding Agents

https://github.com/cognitive-fab/poly
2•jdubray•25m ago•0 comments

A Man Who Saved the Internet Yesterday

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/man-who-saved-internet-php-vulnerability/689123/
3•falava•26m ago•0 comments

A good teacher meets the student where they are

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/a-good-teacher-meets-the-student-where-they-are
2•eigenBasis•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Flaksorama – A party game for work events where anyone can win

https://flaksorama.com/demo
1•flaksorama•26m ago•0 comments

France needs to read my paper

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/10/23/france-needs-to-read-my-paper/
4•Wilsoniumite•28m ago•0 comments

Would you let an AI agent fix things on your servers?

https://github.com/dyablohunter/warden
1•dyablohunter•28m ago•1 comments

Embracing the dark side – An Aristotelian analysis of large language models

https://adamschaefers.com/blog/2026-10-21-embracing-the-dark-side/
2•telecommuter•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: One Million Cells: 1M interactive cells, $1 each, permanently

https://1mcells.com
2•evalexec•31m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Let the ChatGPT app control your phone

https://github.com/horacioMartinez/chatgpt-unleashed
1•hora•32m ago•0 comments