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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 :)

Wayland will be fully supported in the next version of Cinnamon

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5046
1•hedgeho•32s ago•0 comments

Texas commissioner: GOP will lose elections from data center backlash

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/06/sid-miller-republicans-elections-data-centers-abbott/
1•mapping365•1m ago•0 comments

vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System

https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm
1•sebg•2m ago•0 comments

How the World Views China vs. the U.S. in 2026

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-the-world-sees-china-and-the-us-in-2026/
2•simonpure•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gaze – Facial Authentication for Linux

https://github.com/GunduLabs/gaze
2•gundulabs•3m ago•0 comments

"not a single vulnerability was found by a US frontier model."

https://twitter.com/callebtc/status/2085329159094489183
2•int32_64•4m ago•0 comments

A Visual Guide to Quantization – Demystifying the Compression of LLMs

https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-to-quantization
2•sebg•5m ago•0 comments

Gesamtkunstwerk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesamtkunstwerk
1•toomuchtodo•5m ago•0 comments

Google's $15B India data centre project battles water, wildlife concerns

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/googles-15-billion-india-data-centre-project-battles-w...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PushYourThing – the dumbest button-mashing competition on the internet

https://pushyourthing.com
1•canerbo•11m ago•0 comments

Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes

1•spottedmarley•13m ago•0 comments

Cancer-fighting chewing gum cuts HPV levels by up to 93%

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm
3•Audiophilip•13m ago•0 comments

Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD

https://bozo.httpd.rocks/
1•birdculture•14m ago•0 comments

TROOPERS26: V2X Wardriving – They Drive, We Listen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQjMJKB6Aw
1•rbanffy•15m ago•0 comments

Include.sh

https://include-sh.codeberg.page/
1•mindaslab•15m ago•1 comments

What Is a Product?

https://roge.onwrite.app/what-is-a-product
1•rogix•15m ago•0 comments

DOJ Says Duke Law School Discriminated in Admissions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/doj-says-duke-law-school-discriminated-in-admi...
1•petethomas•16m ago•0 comments

Agent Substrate: The Core System

https://github.com/agent-substrate/substrate/
1•ot•16m ago•0 comments

SpaceX, Tesla to initially spend $16.8B on Terafab chip plant in Texas

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacex-says-terafab-be-built-texas-with-initial-in...
2•dogmayor•17m ago•2 comments

The American Art of Blowing Stuff Up

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/the-american-art-of-blowing-stuff-up
1•petethomas•17m ago•0 comments

Hedge funds forced out of tech stocks leave market to mercy of retail traders

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-funds-forced-out-of-tech-stocks-may-leave-the-market-at-t...
1•mapping365•18m ago•0 comments

Goiânia Accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
3•ycollet•20m ago•2 comments

Open QEC harness – greedy vs. GE, uniform vs. clustered k=4

https://github.com/mrblakessinger-rgb/qec-evaluation-suite
1•Pachanoi•20m ago•0 comments

Brainscope/examples/ESP32 Watch a microcontroller's LLM think

https://github.com/moudrkat/brainscope/tree/main/examples/esp32
1•rbanffy•21m ago•0 comments

Why So Many C.E.O.s Are Getting a Chief of Staff

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/business/ceos-chief-of-staff.html
2•tysone•22m ago•0 comments

Caring for Rubber in Vintage Devices, the Curators' Way

https://www.30pin.com/features/rubber-parts-care/
1•ndiddy•23m ago•0 comments

An Analysis of Rust's Language Design Flaws (2025)

https://nimfsoft.art/blog/2025/06/26/analysis-of-rust-language-design-flaws/
1•theanonymousone•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CatQueue – A Redis-free PostgreSQL job queue for Node and TypeScript

https://github.com/karanrajsurya/CatQueue_npm_package
1•karanrajsurya•23m ago•0 comments

1k complaints made to EU Commission's anti-harassment team

https://www.politico.eu/article/1000-complaints-european-commissions-anti-harassment-team/
1•baal80spam•24m ago•0 comments

GPUs for Your Agent

https://givemeanode.com/
1•0xjepsen•25m ago•0 comments