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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•12mo ago

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kuberwastaken•12mo 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 :)

Army Asks Missile Makers to Hack Their Own Weapons

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-great-110-trillion-wealth-transfer-wont-happen-any-time-soon-e8b...
1•fortran77•2m ago•1 comments

Reading Beneath the Surface: Social Cognition and Metacognition Benchmark

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/writeups/Reading-Beneath-the-Surface
1•tenywan•2m ago•0 comments

Shipping an AI app in 30 minutes: the build order matters more than the model

https://medium.com/@jpelton722/i-shipped-an-ai-app-in-30-minutes-the-trick-wasnt-the-ai-46a0e504d273
1•jpelton•3m ago•0 comments

PayPal plans 20% job cuts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/paypal-plans-job-cuts-as-fintech-s-new-ceo-pur...
2•DGAP•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Freu CLI – Cut web agent token usage by 90% via compiled browser skills

https://github.com/freu-ai/freu-cli
2•0xintelligence•4m ago•0 comments

Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/tools-in-the-grass/
1•NaOH•4m ago•0 comments

RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Implementing PCI Passthrough for Gaming

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/
3•scottjg•4m ago•0 comments

Interactive US police bodycam map

https://badge.video
1•zoogies•5m ago•1 comments

Rejourney Swift Package Is Now in Open Beta

https://rejourney.co/engineering/2026-05-05/swift-package-open-beta
1•mrashiddev•7m ago•0 comments

All Eyes on the Nerd? The Unequal Distribution of Teachers' Attention [pdf]

https://www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/25144.pdf
1•efavdb•7m ago•0 comments

Outrage is letting someone else set the frame

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/outrag/
1•Ariarule•8m ago•0 comments

The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ae4acc
1•gnabgib•11m ago•0 comments

Key Strategies to Make SwiftUI Views More Reusable

https://matteomanferdini.com/swiftui-reusable-views/
1•DeusExMachina•12m ago•0 comments

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

https://marcua.net/minitools/figmimic/
1•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

Just Fucking Use Hetzner

https://justfuckingusehetzner.com/
1•zichy•12m ago•0 comments

Alcatraz coyote swam from Angel Island, not SF

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/alcatraz-coyote-unexpected-origin-22241335.php
1•kaycebasques•13m ago•0 comments

How to Automate MongoDB Imports, Exports, and Sync Jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xJbK2b6NV8
2•RoxiHaidi•14m ago•0 comments

AI Is a Mirror of Our Engineering Culture

https://techtrenches.dev/p/ai-is-a-mirror-of-our-engineering
1•davesailer•15m ago•0 comments

Tag, You're It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83YcsIVBEEk
1•tfpgh•16m ago•0 comments

The Handoff Problem (Updated)

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/03/the-handoff-problem.html
1•speckx•20m ago•0 comments

Unlocking Long-Context LLM Training via Compiler-Based Sequence Parallelism

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27089
2•PaulHoule•22m ago•0 comments

Quirre – An AI marketing copilot for non-marketers

https://www.quirre.com/
2•dmnlaali•22m ago•0 comments

When innocent tools form dangerous chains to jailbreak LLM agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25624
2•leecoursey•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's worse? Making decisions based on bad data or no data? Why?

2•jrs235•23m ago•1 comments

What five years of data tells us about lasting relationships

https://hanker.dating/study
4•whatsupdog•24m ago•0 comments

A man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/the-man-who-blew-up-a-nuclear-power-station-koeberg...
5•billybuckwheat•24m ago•0 comments

The Stall Door Crack [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psKpIFYn3Uo
1•giardini•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 118% More RPS for Maravel vs. Lumen with Maravel-Framework 10.71.7

https://medium.com/@marius-ciclistu/118-more-rps-for-maravel-vs-lumen-with-maravel-framework-10-7...
1•marius-ciclistu•26m ago•0 comments

NARE CLI

https://github.com/Nare-Labs/NARE-CLI
2•BastOfMax•26m ago•0 comments

Can Chatbots Do Memfrob?

https://danieltuveson.github.io/stupid/llm/2026/04/24/chatbot.html
1•tuveson•27m ago•0 comments