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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 :)

A call for collective action on cyber defense

https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense/
1•mellosouls•3m ago•0 comments

12 Small Steps for Man [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL2TYHegE2M
1•mzomnir•3m ago•0 comments

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-5
1•peter_d_sherman•7m ago•0 comments

US Military funding propelled China's robot dogs

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1•o4c•11m ago•1 comments

Where Are You Going?

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1•doitLP•12m ago•0 comments

The swarm had no grants

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1•gregschueman•15m ago•0 comments

CSV merger that lines up mismatched columns by header, browser-only

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How the Heck Do Record Players Work?

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1•bobbiechen•18m ago•0 comments

The Mini Cheetah Robot(2019)

https://robot-daycare.com/posts/2019-12-16-the-mini-cheetah-robot/
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Show HN: A focused workspace for creating short AI videos with H3 Max

https://h3max.app/
1•Evanmo888•20m ago•0 comments

Group size effects and collective misalignment in LLM multi-agent systems – PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2531697123
1•Anon84•21m ago•0 comments

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Selling Out

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2•lxm•37m ago•0 comments

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1•thunderbong•39m ago•0 comments

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https://nodusfallwiki.net/
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Pointer Stability for ArrayLists (In Zig)

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2•anitil•44m ago•1 comments

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1•andsoitis•49m ago•0 comments

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2•evo_9•51m ago•1 comments

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3•qikouki•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ChessRabbit – The AI Chess Analysis Platform

https://chessrabbit.co
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Pack snd Run: a delivery roguelite

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Global central bankers gather in Jackson Hole

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/27/2026/global-central-bankers-gather-in-jackson-hole
2•andsoitis•1h ago•1 comments