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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•8mo ago

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kuberwastaken•8mo 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 :)

Need academic volunteer for Guinness World Record verification

1•princevashisht•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: First Valkey-specific VS Code extension (open source Redis fork)

https://github.com/BetterDB-inc/vscode
1•kaliades•3m ago•1 comments

The Ladder to Nowhere: How OpenAI Plans to Learn Everything About You

https://insights.priva.cat/p/the-ladder-to-nowhere-how-openai
1•privacat•3m ago•1 comments

'Amelia': the AI-generated British schoolgirl, a far-right social media star

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/25/ai-generated-british-schoolgirl-becomes-far-righ...
2•pseudolus•3m ago•0 comments

Go 1.26 Is Around the Corner: Small Changes, Big Impact for Real-World Go System

https://medium.com/@anand.hv123/go-1-26-is-around-the-corner-small-changes-big-impact-for-real-wo...
1•throwaway2037•5m ago•0 comments

DigiAgriApp – Software solution aimed at farmers

https://gitlab.com/digiagriapp
1•basemi•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crystal Upscaler – AI image upscaler built for portraits and faces

https://crystalupscaler.com/
1•charlie0simmon•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bonsplit – tabs and splits for native macOS apps

https://bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com
1•sgottit•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Baby Dance AI – Turn baby photos into dance videos in 30 seconds

https://babydanceai.com
1•charlie0simmon•11m ago•0 comments

GLM4.7-Flash vs. other Local LLM. Tested also with OpenCode [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJptWelwpc
2•grigio•13m ago•0 comments

State Terror Has Arrived

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.html
4•_tk_•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SeedVR2 – One-step AI video upscaling to 4K, 10x faster

https://seedvr2.net
1•charlie0simmon•16m ago•0 comments

Stackmaxxing Recursion for Days [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQKSyPYF0-Y
1•ironbound•16m ago•0 comments

Chinese Programmer Dies from Overwork at 32;Added to Work Chat While in Hospital

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2•pella•17m ago•0 comments

67,800-year-old hand stencil is the oldest human-made art

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/this-67800-year-old-hand-stencil-is-the-worlds-oldest-hum...
1•pveierland•19m ago•0 comments

Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005)

https://substack.techreflect.org/p/aperture-senior-qa-2004-2005
1•tosh•28m ago•0 comments

CachyOS newest release drops X11 for Wayland in Live ISOs

https://www.neowin.net/news/cachyos-newest-release-drops-x11-for-wayland-in-live-isos/
1•bundie•37m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_fc4z5bP6k
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400 hours

https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/2015340465445335174
1•ukblewis•39m ago•0 comments

Wall Street braced for a private credit meltdown. The risk of one is rising

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/23/wall-street-private-credit-risk-rising.html
2•zerosizedweasle•40m ago•0 comments

Death to Letterboxd, and Long Live the Independent Web

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2•gnoll_of_gozag•40m ago•1 comments

Is China winning the AI race?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86v52gv726o
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Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications

https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/xdgctl
2•mitjafelicijan•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A browser front-end for TUI coding agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/textual-webterm
1•rcarmo•50m ago•1 comments

By almost every measure, life is better than ever.

https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/trend-lines-not-headlines/
1•hubraumhugo•55m ago•1 comments

Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

https://xmake.io/
1•phmx•55m ago•0 comments

Bouncy Ball will always bounce back

https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/bouncy-ball-will-always-bounce-back/
1•todsacerdoti•56m ago•0 comments

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https://xcancel.com/iannuttall/status/2015063502096896421
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The Engineer who invented the Mars Rover Suspension in his garage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
1•Dries007•59m ago•0 comments