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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•8mo ago

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kuberwastaken•8mo 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 :)

Elon Musk's X must be banned

https://disconnect.blog/elon-musks-x-must-be-banned/
1•mnewme•28s ago•0 comments

Rethinking Information for Computationally Bounded Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03220
1•tzury•1m ago•0 comments

As bombs fell, we committed an act of rebellion: we planted a garden in Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/08/gaza-israel-palestine-garden-seed-food
2•ciconia•2m ago•0 comments

Iranian Censorship, Bypasses, Browser Extensions, and Proxies

https://joshua.hu/iranian-browser-extension-addon-censorship-bypasses
1•mmsc•8m ago•0 comments

Jxl-Rs Merged into Chromium

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/3badff27281339878293e935a5e0fbb41da553bf
1•todsacerdoti•8m ago•0 comments

Join Us in Building LoongFlow – Cognitive Evolutionary AI Framework

https://github.com/baidu-baige/LoongFlow
1•FreshmanD•11m ago•1 comments

Stop Overthinking Struct Pointer and Value Semantics in Go

https://preslav.me/2026/01/08/golang-structs-vs-pointers-pointer-first/
1•ingve•12m ago•0 comments

Google Is Adding an 'AI Inbox' to Gmail That Summarizes Emails

https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-inbox-gmail/
1•signa11•12m ago•0 comments

Episode 29 of the Dirk and Linus show

https://lwn.net/Articles/1050317/
1•signa11•15m ago•0 comments

Terence Tao's list of AI contributions to Erdős problems

https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contributions-to-Erd%C5%91s-problems
1•nomilk•15m ago•0 comments

Treating UI Regions as Independent Actors Makes Terminal State Manageable

https://www.rodriguez.today/articles/reactive-tui-architecture-with-actors
1•signa11•17m ago•0 comments

The Frontier Is Now Free

https://ampcode.com/news/amp-free-frontier
1•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

A Major Mail Provider Demonstrate They Likely Do Not Understand Mail at All

https://nxdomain.no/~peter/they_do_not_understand_mail_at_all.html
1•gpi•19m ago•0 comments

New Article: How to File a Patent Application Yourself

https://idea2patentai.com/articles/diy-provisional-patent-filing
1•idea2patentAI•22m ago•1 comments

CES 2026: We tried an AI supercomputer that fit in our pocket. Meet Tiiny AI

https://mashable.com/article/ces-2026-tiiny-ai-pocket-lab-ai-supercomputer
1•_____k•23m ago•0 comments

Claude-quill your inline parallel coderabbit

https://github.com/blas0/claude-quill
1•blas0•25m ago•1 comments

European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107/
2•pabs3•27m ago•0 comments

MIT's "Mathematics for Computer Science" (2018) [pdf]

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring18/mcs.pdf
8•vismit2000•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built an AI tool to fight NYC's new "Acoustic Camera" tickets ($800)

https://nycnoisecameraticket.com
1•todaycompanies•30m ago•1 comments

Preview and edit marketing images before production

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2•MMAFRAZ•31m ago•1 comments

Rise of AI chatbots for shopping boosts analyst hopes for Shopify's growth

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-shopify-ai-chatbots-online-shopping-growth-plans/
1•petethomas•35m ago•0 comments

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

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4•saikatsg•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Workzonespeedingticket.com – Automating disputes for automated fines

https://workzonespeedingticket.com/
2•todaycompanies•39m ago•1 comments

Is AI solving open Erdős problems?

https://zeyu-zheng.github.io/blog/erdősConjectures.html
2•demirbey05•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SleekCMS – A Headless CMS for developers who usually hate CMSs

https://hn.sleekcms.com
2•yusufnb•52m ago•0 comments

Validate social posts before publishing – pre-publish scoring

https://vect.pro/#/signup?continue=%2Fapp%2Ftools%3Ftool%3DSocial+Media+Post
1•afrazullal•52m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FnPrompt – AI Prompt Architect Ecosystem (VS Code, CLI, Chrome, Web)

https://fnprompt.com/
2•seckindurasi•53m ago•1 comments

Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/01/08/do-not-mistake-a-resilient-global-economy-for-populi...
60•andsoitis•53m ago•17 comments

Hypocritespy

https://github.com/Ronny12345-art/Hypocritespy
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Show HN: Online 3-Way diff and merge conflict resolver

https://codeinput.com/products/merge-conflicts/demo
2•csomar•1h ago•0 comments