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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 :)

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
1•thepoet•1m ago•0 comments

Oura ring misleads consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy

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1•tracyhenry•3m ago•0 comments

DRC Ebola outbreak 'growing exponentially,' UN says

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1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Codex adds hidden "Daybreak Blue" and "Daybreak Red" cybersecurity models

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Show HN: eInk Optimized Manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/KOreader)

https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc
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Anthropic plans to change enterprise data retention policy

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Show HN: Roastme.gg – Pay to get publicly roasted by AI

https://roastme.gg
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How to Make a World Model

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Show HN: Caspian – Talk to Human Tool for AI Agents

https://github.com/TryCaspian/caspian-sdk
1•dipanshuhappy•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mini DBA – monitoring for on prem and cloud databases in 1 place

https://demo.minidba.com/kiosk-human-check?returnUrl=%2F
1•badlydressedboy•9m ago•0 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

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1•ibobev•10m ago•0 comments

Blackbody: Rational Fits+Error

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Coinbase built a governed platform for internal operations

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1•dukebartnik•10m ago•0 comments

Why Are Colleges Giving Financial Aid to Rich Kids?

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1•apparent•10m ago•1 comments

Curvature Beziers

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Platforms Should Let Agents Talk

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1•domenkozar•11m ago•0 comments

Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix

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1•domenkozar•11m ago•0 comments

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Caveman prompting saves tokens, until you run it in real sessions

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2•maxignol•15m ago•1 comments

Process Image Batches in the Browser Without Freezing the UI

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1•javatuts•16m ago•0 comments

I hacked Hikvision push notifications on GrapheneOS and submitted a fix PR

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Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

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Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users

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1•teachrdan•18m ago•0 comments

One of the coolest Pomodoro timer on the internet

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Slovakia discovers Russian backdoors in 279 new traffic cameras – SMS-triggered

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2•sbulaev•19m ago•0 comments

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SearXNG running on OpenBSD on a ThinkPad t420

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Show HN: Whodunit? Solve a daily AI-written Mystery

https://whodunit.rip
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How good are agents at CAD?

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2•pabert•22m ago•1 comments