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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 :)

Playing old strategy games in 2026

https://replicated.live/blog/games
1•andsoitis•1m ago•0 comments

MathLapse: Constructions by pin-and-string: conics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mldZ_7QwLvs
1•vismit2000•2m ago•0 comments

American Retirees on Different Incomes Rely on Social Security

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/business/social-security-income-retirement-benefits.html
1•toomuchtodo•3m ago•1 comments

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time – pv magazine Global

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/
2•xbmcuser•3m ago•0 comments

Scientists Reveal How Pancreatic Cancer Evolves to Evade Treatment

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/scientists-reveal-how-pancreatic-cancer-evolves-to-evade-treatment
1•gmays•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do I stop Gemini Live from asking."Would like to know more about..?"

1•orsenthil•5m ago•0 comments

Null Surprises

https://wizardzines.com/comics/null-surprises/
1•vismit2000•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why people do not want to believe weight loss is possible without GLPs?

1•faangguyindia•7m ago•1 comments

I built a Telegram bot that tells me when watched Instagram accounts post

https://hikerapi.com/
1•SAdfzVGBXCNVB•8m ago•0 comments

Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using
2•crescit_eundo•9m ago•0 comments

Using the brella to re-create Reddit

https://ahptour.com/blog/using-the-brella-to-re-create-reddit/
2•andrewfromx•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser

https://github.com/mikroverk/esp32sim
1•joakimeriksson•13m ago•0 comments

New Tesla Roadster: My Honest Reaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scwlR0QHGOk
1•Betelbuddy•15m ago•0 comments

Life After Death?

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/lifeafter/
1•gmays•18m ago•0 comments

Seminal Book Auction at Sotheby's

https://www.sothebys.com/en/series/reason-and-revolution-extraordinary-works-from-a-distinguished...
1•herodotus•18m ago•1 comments

Nexus-Q update: V4 native back end is now in main

https://nexus-q.link/
1•lecodev•19m ago•0 comments

Takto open-source hand exoskeleton

https://github.com/molanocortes/takto-one/tree/main
2•andsoitis•22m ago•1 comments

Internet access a fundamental right for all age groups – India's Supreme Court

https://scroll.in/latest/1096477/children-have-fundamental-right-to-use-internet-says-sc
3•drewfax•24m ago•1 comments

Are You Sure Your LLM Is Sure?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22139
2•Betelbuddy•25m ago•1 comments

Stop ATSC 3.0 DRM

https://blog.velocifyer.com/Posts/7,Stop%20ATSC%203.0%20DRM/
1•Velocifyer•26m ago•0 comments

Microsoft AI chief says the company beat OpenAI's models, using less compute

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai-ceo-new-model-beats-openai-using-less-compute-2026-10
1•khalidkhair•27m ago•2 comments

Academics should self publish textbooks

https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/10/14/why-academics-should-self-publish-textbooks/
1•jruohonen•27m ago•0 comments

Prior-Data Gravity and Framework Reabsorption: A Behavioral Theory of LLMs

https://zenodo.org/records/23431917
1•RhizomaticMind•29m ago•0 comments

Developing for Debugging (2025)

https://www.davepacheco.net/blog/2025/developing-for-debugging-dns-propagation/
2•mpweiher•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vramkit – lossless VRAM compression for LLM inference, on a MacBook

https://github.com/SRKRZ23/vramkit
1•sardor_r1•32m ago•0 comments

Welcome to the tour (AHP tour that is, Association of Hackathon Professionals)

https://ahptour.com/blog/welcome-to-the-tour/
2•andrewfromx•32m ago•0 comments

FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22350
1•Betelbuddy•33m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: It's still worth to show own handmaded games to the public internet?

1•Wormaus•34m ago•2 comments

Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer

https://celphase.github.io/duck-pond/
1•celphase•36m ago•0 comments

Sl – A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System

https://github.com/facebook/sapling
1•modinfo•41m ago•0 comments