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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 :)

Show HN: Nexa-gauge – Cache/cost-aware graph-based eval for LLM and RAG

https://github.com/harnexa/nexa-gauge
1•Sardhendu•5m ago•0 comments

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

https://www.wired.com/story/mexican-science-transforms-scorpion-venom-and-habanero-chile-into-ant...
1•littlexsparkee•8m ago•1 comments

Accelerator Applicant's AI System Makes Faux Pau; Critical of Accelerator Model

https://news.novonavis.com/news/intel_080526_2297
1•capagg•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Launch and Run Companies on Autopilot

https://lakyus.com/live
1•edonnie•14m ago•1 comments

Claude FM music for thinking and building [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQKjgKQF7w
1•davidk42•14m ago•0 comments

CVE-2026-7413: Persistent undocumented backdoor access with Yarbo

https://takeonme.org/cves/cve-2026-7413/
1•shakna•15m ago•0 comments

AI Canasta Scoring App

https://canastascore.com/
1•alohaplannerapp•17m ago•0 comments

Playing Around with OpenAI's GPT Realtime Voice API

https://nathancooper.io/blog/2026-05-08-gpt-realtime-audio
1•coop57•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-native tech assessments (end of LeetCode)

https://www.openround.ai/
2•vetted_so•22m ago•0 comments

The Big Engine That Could

https://medium.com/human-offset/the-big-engine-that-could-de152076bb82
1•gdessau•23m ago•0 comments

Archive.today Reverts to Monero-Only Donations

https://archive.fo
1•Cider9986•24m ago•1 comments

Opentype.js 2.0.0 Released

https://github.com/opentypejs/opentype.js/releases/tag/2.0.0
1•ILOVEPIE•24m ago•0 comments

Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations

https://ubuntu.com/blog/dirty-frag-linux-vulnerability-fixes-available
2•zajio1am•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MOG Simulator, Emergent galaxies via ensemble of grids [video]

https://github.com/tbmo/mog-solver
1•tbmo•25m ago•1 comments

X A "Clean Room" for 2026 technical and logistical news

https://xreport.news/
1•XREPORTNEWS•26m ago•0 comments

James Schuyler's Genius

https://yalereview.org/article/james-schuylers-genius
1•Thevet•26m ago•0 comments

A Robot Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-gabi-the-new-robot-monk-at-a-buddhist-temple-in-so...
1•lisper•29m ago•0 comments

Loom -single line install TTY IDE for agent coding

https://github.com/claytantor/loom-tty-ide
1•claydronze•30m ago•1 comments

Porn website at center of CNN investigation into sexual abuse taken offline

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/europe/porn-site-motherless-taken-down-dutch-authorities-intl
1•NDlurker•31m ago•1 comments

Jane Street earned $10B in first quarter as it doubled trading revenue

https://www.ft.com/content/fe483e68-097a-4b80-ad3a-0792dda8f94a
2•KnuthIsGod•32m ago•0 comments

I built a pixel oven that tells you if you're cooked

https://broamicooked.com/
1•HealthAI47•35m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are the most joyful AI projects you've seen?

3•adagradschool•36m ago•1 comments

San Francisco's housing market has lost its mind

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/san-franciscos-housing-market-has-lost-its-mind/
1•littlexsparkee•39m ago•0 comments

Iran war's global energy crisis sharpens China's advantage in clean tech

https://apnews.com/article/iran-middle-east-war-energy-asia-china-05d198d6e8dc99d0209dddfff26ae52a
4•breve•46m ago•0 comments

Reduce friction and latency for long-running jobs with Webhooks in Gemini API

https://twitter.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/2051421109506228656
1•gmays•52m ago•0 comments

Pushing Local Models with Focus and Polish

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/8/local-models/
1•wrxd•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: [Video] Tribute to LLM releases in April 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu5ffMH_X9w
2•everlier•57m ago•0 comments

The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number
8•bilsbie•1h ago•1 comments

You Might Be a Late Bloomer (2024)

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2•breve•1h ago•0 comments

The Tax of Living in a Low-Trust Society: How Collapsed Trust Costs You

https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/low-trust-society-cost
23•ot•1h ago•8 comments