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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 :)

Let's Take a Look at Lower Java Tail Latencies with ZGC

https://www.morling.dev/blog/lower-java-tail-latencies-with-zgc/
1•ksec•45s ago•0 comments

Quake Version 1.07 on RS/6000 Systems

https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/games/Quake/
1•nazgulsenpai•1m ago•0 comments

Bees make decisions better and faster than we do

https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/for-media/bees-make-decisions-better-and-faster-than-we-do-for-the-t...
1•andsoitis•2m ago•0 comments

Inhibitory synapses influence signals in the brain with high precision

https://maxplanckneuroscience.org/inhibitory-synapses-influence-signals-in-the-brain-with-high-pr...
1•andsoitis•3m ago•0 comments

2nd brain scrolls corners of X for you so you can focus on other things

https://trydewey.ai/?v=2
1•second_brain2•3m ago•0 comments

Decision-making and action selection in insects

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4539514/
1•andsoitis•4m ago•0 comments

State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations

https://huggingface.co/blog/state-of-open-models-summer-2026
2•kristianpaul•4m ago•0 comments

Neuroscientists have underestimated brain cells' computing power

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neuroscientists-have-vastly-underestimated-brain-cells...
2•signa11•9m ago•0 comments

Google Turns on Gemini A.I. For Students Using Its Classroom App

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/business/google-gemini-ai-schools.html
1•goldfishgold•9m ago•0 comments

What insects can teach us about decision making

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260810-what-insects-can-teach-us-about-decision-making
1•Scrapemist•14m ago•0 comments

Pg_stat_ch: Automatic Postgres stat exports to ClickHouse

https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_stat_ch-postgres-extension-stats-to-clickhouse
1•caffeinated_me•15m ago•0 comments

A Green Light for Crooks

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/corrupt-administration-shell-company-business-transpare...
1•paulpauper•19m ago•0 comments

Will farm animals always suffer?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/will-farm-animals-always-suffer/
1•paulpauper•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I serve my website with a swarm of ESP32 microcontrollers on a shelf

https://github.com/Novotarskyi/ivan-bohun
3•disco_jack•28m ago•1 comments

'We are not lonely': Solitude as a new aspirational lifestyle

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y63dw2x3wo
1•gmays•35m ago•0 comments

Energy, surplus, economic process (December 2026)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800926002302
1•oliculipolicula•36m ago•0 comments

Brazil2026ElectionFilter

https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixer/filters/brazil_2026_election_filter.rs
1•dmarto•42m ago•0 comments

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
2•remywang•45m ago•0 comments

AI Driven Testing

https://app.deltix.ai
3•oneounceman•45m ago•0 comments

Cox–Zucker Machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine
4•rolph•47m ago•0 comments

Delete DoorDash

https://deletedoordash.com/
2•megamike•49m ago•3 comments

We need your help to make a faster and more secure Monero node a reality

https://reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1vo7htb/we_need_your_help_to_make_a_faster_and_more/
1•Cider9986•50m ago•0 comments

Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use
1•_josh_meyer_•1h ago•0 comments

Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast

https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-ipo-valuation-hinges-190-200-billion-2028-revenue-fore...
3•PessimalDecimal•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: BeCharts – online chart maker (templates, CSV, PNG/SVG/PDF)

https://www.becharts.com/editor
1•neo_tang•1h ago•0 comments

How did a Usenet troll and encryption genius become a criminal mastermind?

https://magazine.atavist.com/2016/he-always-had-a-dark-side
1•firefax•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WMTrace – See how LLM text watermarks work (Anthropic just adopted one)

https://github.com/gtesei/llm-watermark
1•isacco•1h ago•0 comments

Someone is publishing a trove of zero-days

https://0day-rubbish.com/
2•dclavijo•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/14/openai-ditches-recall-style-screenshot-surveilla...
1•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments

An Infamous Math Problem Closer to Being Solved by Encouraging AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-math-riemann-hypothesis-anthropic-openai-22f98a87
1•RyanShook•1h ago•0 comments