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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 :)

How well do agents use your design system?

https://www.sanity.io/engineering/design-system-evals
1•kmelve•1m ago•0 comments

America's immigration policy is driving away future AI leaders

https://restofworld.org/2026/us-immigration-rules-ai-talent-china/
1•herbertl•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Railo – Deterministic security patch bot using AST and Z3 (no LLMs)

https://www.railo.dev
1•mdzariflatif•2m ago•0 comments

Moscow Turned AI into a Ghostwriting Machine for Global Influence

https://united24media.com/world/how-moscow-turned-ai-into-a-ghostwriting-machine-for-global-influ...
4•whynotmaybe•5m ago•0 comments

Actualis – read what your coding agent did on your machine

https://github.com/digital-foundry/actualis
2•actualis•6m ago•0 comments

I measured the x402 economy. It's $11,748 a month

https://github.com/dhughes6071/driftwatch/blob/main/research/posts/x402-economy-measured.md
2•dhughes6071•6m ago•0 comments

Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/08/germany-plans-sugar-tax-that-includes-sugar-free-drinks/
3•sva_•7m ago•0 comments

Physlint – deterministic integrity checks for physical-AI data

https://github.com/pranayjoshi/physlint
2•pranay_joshi•7m ago•0 comments

I Am Looking for Work

https://www.technotheoria.org/p/i-am-looking-for-work
3•paulpauper•8m ago•0 comments

AI's Bar Mitzvah Moment? From Hope and Hype to Hard Business Questions

https://aswathdamodaran.substack.com/p/ais-bar-mitzvah-moment-from-hope
4•paulpauper•9m ago•0 comments

Tailcat: Secure Tunnels in Seconds (Tailscale)

https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat
11•nderjung•10m ago•0 comments

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/
3•Velocifyer•11m ago•0 comments

Fixing Rust's supply chain security: The good, the bad and the ugly

https://kerkour.com/fixing-rust-supply-chain-security
2•speckx•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countries

https://foresightplanner.com/
3•nhootan•11m ago•0 comments

Freevalve: The camless engine, told properly

https://notenoughcylinders.com/en/freevalve-camless-engine-koenigsegg-2/
2•fchicken•13m ago•1 comments

Anonymous and open to all: The Home Assistant survey dataset

https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/home-assistant-survey-dataset/
4•calcifer•15m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Even HN is getting heavy traffic by AI crawlers

6•ksec•17m ago•3 comments

The Index Is Not the World

https://pub.towardsai.net/the-index-is-not-the-world-de26b0e0a7d3?sharedUserId=carmineds.pro
2•cadeos•18m ago•0 comments

Nanobubble Chemistry Enables Catalyst‑Free Ammonia Synthesis in Mild Conditions

https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/research-news/202608/t20260824_1188763.shtml
2•bookofjoe•18m ago•0 comments

Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch a local AI agent

https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/perplexity-partners-with-nvidia-to-launch-portable-compute...
5•inferhaven•20m ago•1 comments

PostgreSQL 18: 23x Faster Inserts with UUID V7

https://andyatkinson.com/postgresql-18-uuidv7
3•speckx•21m ago•0 comments

Golf Course Design as Variance Transformation

https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/course-design-as-variance-transformation
2•scoofy•21m ago•0 comments

CDs vs. NIMBY

https://www.betonit.ai/p/cds-vs-nimby
4•pr337h4m•21m ago•0 comments

Top issues in midterm vote: #14 Climate Change at 3%

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/they-dont-care-cnn-data-guru-on-voters-shifting-attitudes-on-cl...
2•delichon•22m ago•0 comments

Meta settles social media addiction case for 18B dollars

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/meta-settlement-lawsuit-child-safety-social...
5•gurjeet•22m ago•0 comments

Best TypeScript AI Agent Frameworks for Next.js

https://www.arcade.dev/blog/typescript-ai-agent-frameworks/
3•manveerc•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Timber (iOS) and Timber Tabs (Mac) – best offline read-aloud LLMs

https://timberreader.com/
2•Fe2_O3•24m ago•0 comments

YouTube Format IDs

https://gist.github.com/MartinEesmaa/2f4b261cb90a47e9c41ba115a011a4aa
3•ksec•24m ago•0 comments

How Render Workflows powers our internal data pipeline

https://render.com/blog/how-render-workflows-powers-our-internal-data-pipeline
3•anurag•26m ago•0 comments

The Root of the Root of All Evil – Casey Muratori [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8
4•throwaway17_17•26m ago•1 comments