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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 :)

Play PICO-8 on your Apple Watch

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emulator-for-pico-8-picpic/id6759208792
1•3Samourai•17s ago•0 comments

Wildfire misinformation is mutating online, thanks to AI slop

https://thenarwhal.ca/wildfire-misinformation-2026/
1•hn_acker•18s ago•0 comments

GCC 16.2 Released with more than 100 bug fixes

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2026-August/248711.html
1•edelsohn•20s ago•0 comments

LLM-generated tests can change which implementation wins

https://zenodo.org/records/21841560
1•haitamk•36s ago•0 comments

OpenAI Trained Its Models for Months While They Coordinated Exploits

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-trained-its-models-for-months
1•swolpers•1m ago•0 comments

Making VS Code Quiet Again

https://vinitkumar.me/making-vscode-quiet-again/
1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

A Promising Heart Drug Fails, Challenging a Long-Held Theory of Disease

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/heart-disease-drug-fails-novo-nordisk.html
1•elo2000•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mousecrack – Teaching an LSTM to move a mouse like a human

https://github.com/puffinsoft/mousecrack
1•ReactRocks•5m ago•0 comments

Salem

https://graybeard.ing/salem/
1•rglover•7m ago•0 comments

Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/06/neat-io-threaded.html
1•mpweiher•9m ago•0 comments

Buy tokens, rent GPUs, or own the rack?

https://www.flowstate.inc/insights/will-hackett/buy-tokens-rent-gpus-or-own-the-rack/
2•speckx•10m ago•0 comments

The Oceanos Rescue Remembered

https://defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/the-oceanos-rescue-remembered/
1•_djo_•12m ago•0 comments

Why Paris Is Obsessed with a Niche Spirit Made by Monks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/how-chartreuse-conquered-paris-wine-bars-to-be...
1•brandonb•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Remove LinkedIn reaction-promoted posts using uBlock

1•ra0x3•13m ago•0 comments

Inconsiderate Asshole

https://ninjasandrobots.com/inconsiderate-asshole
1•nate•13m ago•0 comments

Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)

https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-ben...
2•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

How to design good agent tools

https://www.bolshchikov.com/p/your-agent-isnt-dumb-your-tools-are
1•bolshchikov•15m ago•0 comments

Colorado's statewide e-bike rebate program returns

https://www.cpr.org/2026/08/06/colorado-e-bike-rebate-program-returns/
2•geox•15m ago•0 comments

Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly'

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/07/nx-s1-5922530/patients-betting-kalshi-polymarket-clinical-trials
3•randycupertino•15m ago•3 comments

After mitigation measures, residents say Aurora data center still creating noise

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/06/after-mitigation-measures-residents-say-aurora-data-cen...
3•starkparker•16m ago•0 comments

Whiteboards are better than PowerPoint

https://leadprompt.sh/a/740-Whiteboards-are-better-than-PowerPoint-2026w18
1•saltysalt•16m ago•0 comments

Adventure (1980 Video Game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(1980_video_game)
2•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
7•artninja1988•19m ago•1 comments

DoH, DoT, DoQ, DoH3, and ODoH: which one should you use?

https://blog.dundns.eu/posts/doh-dot-doq-odoh-explained/
1•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling to Stop Spending on AI

https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-m...
5•swolpers•19m ago•1 comments

What Are the Margins of Error in the BLS Monthly Jobs Reports? (2024)

https://mishtalk.com/economics/what-are-the-margins-of-error-in-the-bls-monthly-jobs-reports/
1•starkparker•20m ago•0 comments

EEPROM (not to be confused with EPROM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEPROM
1•dieselgate•21m ago•0 comments

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign Defense Pact

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-turkey-and-pakistan-sign-defense-pact-ba80d84d
5•JumpCrisscross•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Squaredle 2 – browser-local word-grid practice and solver

https://squaredle2.org/
1•lby910722•23m ago•0 comments

Project Kalos – Zero-copy C/CUDA sidecar for 0.46ms LLM memory recall

https://github.com/MongooseReborn/kalos-engine
1•mongoosereborn•23m ago•0 comments