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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 :)

Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/tesla-reveals-two-robotaxi-crashes-involving-teleoperators/
1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

A text based loading/thinking animation exploration

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1tetzlb/agents_are_thinking_a_text_based_thinking/
1•zane__chen•2m ago•0 comments

PyCon US 2026 Typing Summit Recap

https://bernat.tech/posts/pycon-us-2026-typing-summit-recap/
1•rexledesma•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Infinite Swap – Trade a bottle cap up to a house

https://infiniteswap.app/
1•dansquizsoft•4m ago•0 comments

Profunctor Equipment in Haskell

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2026/05/16/profunctor-equipment-in-haskell/
1•g0xA52A2A•4m ago•0 comments

Long Island Rail Road Strike Shuts Down Busiest U.S. Passenger Rail Service

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/nyregion/lirr-strike.html
1•JumpCrisscross•5m ago•0 comments

Custodial vs. non-custodial stablecoin cards: two different systems

https://nethsara.substack.com/p/custodial-vs-non-custodial-stablecoin
1•nethsarask•5m ago•0 comments

MacBook microphone has no dynamic range

https://blog.vasi.li/macbook-microphone-has-no-dynamic-range/
1•vsviridov•6m ago•0 comments

Can Some Tiny Particles Cool the Planet? One Tech Company Says Yes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/climate/stardust-solutions-geoengineering-cooling-earth.html
1•lxm•8m ago•0 comments

How an Australian Teen Team Is Making Radio Astronomy Affordable for Schools

https://mag.openrockets.com/p/how-an-australian-teen-team-is-making-radio-astronomy-affordable-fo...
1•openrockets•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agenda Intel MD – schemas and CLI to audit LLM strategic-risk briefs

https://github.com/vassiliylakhonin/agenda-intelligence-md
1•vassilbek•11m ago•0 comments

NeuroAPI – AI for Finance

https://neuroapi.neurobro.ai/docs
1•gromdimon•11m ago•1 comments

Kaiku – Free FM Synthesizer – VST3 – Linux / macOS / Windows

https://github.com/Jakko-KAAMOS/kaiku
1•Jakko-KAAMOS•12m ago•0 comments

AI research papers are getting better, and it's a big problem for scientists

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/930522/ai-research-papers-slop-peer-review-pr...
1•greesil•13m ago•0 comments

What Sudoku Reveals About AI Reasoning Architectures and the Future

https://logicalintelligence.com/blog/energy-based-model-sudoku-demo
1•Topfi•13m ago•0 comments

Tesla Patents New Trim Clip to Reduce Rattles and Vibrations

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/4122/tesla-patents-new-trim-clip-to-reduce-rattles-and-vibrations
1•busymom0•19m ago•0 comments

B2B Copywriting That Drives Demand

https://draft.dev/learn/b2b-copywriting-drives-demand
2•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

Mode collapse has a name, and he's selling cancer treatment advice on Amazon

https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/cheap-agents-alumni-shirts-and-elias-thorne/
1•danielrmay•22m ago•0 comments

An Accent in the National Anthem

https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/16/immigration-assimilation-melting-pot-baseball-america/
1•mooreds•23m ago•0 comments

JA4 fingerprinting: a better way to identify clients

https://bunny.net/blog/ja4-fingerprinting-a-better-way-to-identify-clients/
1•mooreds•23m ago•0 comments

Are We Asymmetric Yet?

https://areweasymmetricyet.dev/
1•mzyz•24m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

https://www.seangoedecke.com/steering-vectors/
4•Brajeshwar•25m ago•0 comments

The Transformation of Documents: Repositories Are the New Unit of Knowledge Work

https://blog.sigplan.org/2026/05/15/the-transformation-of-documents-repositories-are-the-new-unit...
1•rbanffy•26m ago•0 comments

Venus Surface Formations Puzzle Planetary Scientists

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/bizarre-venus-surface-formations-puzzle-planetary-scientists
1•rbanffy•26m ago•0 comments

Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, MHC, Compressed Attention

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/recent-developments-in-llm-architectures
1•vismit2000•31m ago•0 comments

Wow – these are the AI sources worth paying attention to

https://fav0.com/en/2026-05-16/
1•Justin3go•36m ago•0 comments

Research paper of Atlantic white shark migratory patterns

https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v580/p1-16
1•realsharkymark•38m ago•1 comments

Someone forked my repo, then submitted a PR written by Claude

https://github.com/dacracot/Klondike3-Simulator/pull/53
3•dacracot•42m ago•1 comments

Math, Bits, Magic, and a Bit of Abnormal C Programming

https://alexeev-dev.bearblog.dev/math-bits-magic-and-a-bit-of-abnormal-c-programming/
1•alexeev-prog•42m ago•1 comments

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/openai-launches-chatgpt-for-personal-finance-will-let-you-conne...
1•mwexler•44m ago•2 comments