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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•6mo ago

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kuberwastaken•6mo 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 :)

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/linguistics/2024-fedorenko.pdf
1•netfortius•2m ago•1 comments

Louvre to hike ticket prices for most non-EU tourists by 45%

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyd4llgrego
1•geox•2m ago•0 comments

Why this may be the last "normal" year

https://lifemasteryhubcom.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/the-final-acceleration-2030/
1•bilsbie•3m ago•0 comments

Stirling PDF 2.0

https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/releases/tag/v2.0.0
1•pentagrama•3m ago•0 comments

"Weeping Angel" pattern in B2B tracking: vendors that detect auditors and hide

https://www.deployblackout.com/investigations/rb2b
1•SignalDr•4m ago•0 comments

Obsidian/Joplin does NOT support manual/arbitrary sorting of folders or notes

3•lilerjee•13m ago•0 comments

Janet Yellen Says the US Is Undermining Its Economic Success

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/janet-yellen-warns-about-economic-risk-of-trum...
3•wslh•14m ago•2 comments

Time to Profit and Why Business Sustainability Matters

https://pawelbrodzinski.substack.com/p/time-to-profit-and-why-business-sustainability
1•flail•15m ago•0 comments

Bringing Collabora Online to the Desktop

https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/press-release-bringing-collabora-online-to-the-desktop/
1•pentagrama•16m ago•0 comments

Wintergatan – Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q?si=KzI3BLLWd1AGiP7e
2•guhsnamih•19m ago•1 comments

Building an NPM Worm (2016)

https://contolini.com/building-an-npm-worm
2•christophetd•19m ago•0 comments

The Eleven-Faced Die That Emulates Two Six-Sided Dice

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/28/the-eleven-faced-die-that-emulates-two-six-sided-dice/
4•sohkamyung•19m ago•0 comments

Dynamic Model Fusion – A Framework for Vendor-Agnostic AI Orchestration

https://dalehurley.com/posts/cross-vendor-dmf-paper
1•dalemhurley•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Dropout. – The uniform of those who walked out and still won

1•kengeo•20m ago•0 comments

Docker breaks DNS on all custom bridge networks

https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/29
1•ximm•21m ago•0 comments

ESA and Norway Explore Possibility of Arctic Space Centre

https://aeromorning.com/en/esa-and-norway-explore-possibility-of-arctic-space-centre/
1•bookofjoe•21m ago•0 comments

Battery tracks: the green innovations that could power the railway's next era

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/in-depth/battery-tracks-the-green-innovations-that-could-po...
1•timthorn•22m ago•0 comments

Do You Remember Hacker Monthly Magazine?

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Hacker+Monthly%22
2•tzury•26m ago•1 comments

A $1M Dollar Apple Macintosh PowerBook 170

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/326104837538
1•todsacerdoti•28m ago•0 comments

In Memphis, where people fear Elon Musk's supercomputer is making them ill

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/grok-elon-musk-ai-memphis-super-computers-ppv9vpk8s
1•adam•28m ago•0 comments

Ambient-noise synth in JavaScript: when instability is a feature, not a bug

https://bs.stranno.su/drone-ambient-noise-synthesizer/
1•maxalyokhin•30m ago•0 comments

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its 'Made with AI' tags'A

https://www.theverge.com/news/831747/tim-sweeney-epic-ceo-steam-game-stores-made-with-ai
1•RyeCombinator•30m ago•1 comments

First Impressions of Gleam

https://spin.atomicobject.com/first-impressions-of-gleam/
1•ingve•32m ago•0 comments

Monkeys Have Rhythm

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp5220
1•DrierCycle•35m ago•0 comments

Harder than it should be

1•Praisethegreat•36m ago•0 comments

Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-de...
74•PhilippGille•36m ago•9 comments

LLMs Are Still Worst at Complex Tasks

https://medium.com/@anwarzaid76/llms-are-still-worst-at-complex-tasks-b3f35a9cf762
2•MindBreaker2605•37m ago•0 comments

I'll find you the right solution

1•Praisethegreat•38m ago•0 comments

HAProxy 3.3 Released

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/announcing-haproxy-3-3
3•causenad•40m ago•0 comments

Swiss provider webland has been down for a week

https://status.webland.ch
1•sschueller•42m ago•1 comments