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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 :)

Frogs Wear Bacterial Armor to Defend Against Fungus

https://nautil.us/frogs-wear-bacterial-armor-to-defend-against-fungus-1285363
1•whiteblossom•1m ago•0 comments

Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone Gets Interferometric Imaging

https://hackaday.com/2026/09/28/synthetic-aperture-radar-drone-gets-interferometric-imaging/
1•whiteblossom•2m ago•0 comments

AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War – and No One Seems to Care

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/28/ai-military-nuclear-war-doomsday/
1•cdrnsf•4m ago•0 comments

Optimize Tetris NP-Complete Solution with AlphaEvolve

https://bufferof.com/en/Blog_Optimize_Tetris_NP_Complete_solution_with_AlphaEvolve/index.html
1•vikas-sharma•5m ago•0 comments

10 Tokens for Your Meat Brain LLM

https://www.jimmysastra.com/blog/10-tokens/
1•sastra•6m ago•1 comments

Reliable AI automation done right (not with a model)

https://skeptical.ai/
1•senorcarbone•7m ago•0 comments

AI is eroding the barriers that kept biological weapons rare

https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/28/ai-bioweapons-pathogens-guardrails-policy-warning/
1•EA-3167•8m ago•1 comments

SBX env: consistent and shareable AI sandbox configurations

https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/configuration/environment-files
1•pploug•10m ago•0 comments

Meta Poaches MongoDB CEO "Effective Immediately"

https://www.tikr.com/blog/meta-poaches-mongodb-ceo-effective-immediately-stock-sinks-24
1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Procedural universe generation without N-body loops

https://github.com/PJHkorea/time-density-tension
2•PJHkorea•16m ago•1 comments

Mathathon: Old Problems, New Proofs

https://mathathonchallenge.com/
1•JohnHammersley•21m ago•0 comments

Boeing's Starliner won't launch astronauts until 2028 (and may need new rocket)

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/boeing-starliner-wont-launch-astronauts...
1•JumpCrisscross•21m ago•0 comments

We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned

https://sentientmedia.org/five-takeaways-mapping-iowas-factory-farms/
1•voidmain0001•23m ago•0 comments

Watch scientists decipher burnt scrolls without unrolling them

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02920-8
2•bookofjoe•24m ago•1 comments

App Store review allowed a Meta Muse copycat

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/8.html
2•JumpCrisscross•24m ago•0 comments

Ukrainian forces advance in key eastern battlefield

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-forces-advance-key-eastern-battlefield-senior-comm...
1•JumpCrisscross•25m ago•0 comments

Orcarouter/OrcaSAQ-2-27B

https://huggingface.co/orcarouter/OrcaSAQ-2-27B
1•handfuloflight•25m ago•0 comments

How the Internet got 32-bit addresses, as explained by Vint Cerf (in 2026)

https://emot.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-got-its-addresses
2•emot•27m ago•0 comments

Munich 787 Vietnam Airlines Interim report is out

https://www.bfu-web.de/EN/Publications/InterimReports/IR2026/IR26-0757_AX_Boeing787.html
1•nixass•29m ago•0 comments

Destroy Any Website with a Stickman

https://twitter.com/HugoDuprez/status/2104579137575018827
1•hackerbeat•30m ago•0 comments

Toughen GPS to resist jamming and spoofing (2022)

https://www.gpsworld.com/toughen-gps-to-resist-jamming-and-spoofing/
2•conorcleary•30m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model over Safety Concerns

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-model-release-cancel-safety-5a2f9f42
7•borski•30m ago•1 comments

MoreWrong

https://morewrong.lol/
1•etc-hosts•31m ago•0 comments

Replace Your OpenAI, Anthropic or Google API Call with Middleware

https://middleware.now/
1•aperi•31m ago•0 comments

Designing an iPhone gaming dock in an afternoon with GPT-6 Astra

https://getdockade.com/
1•shashu10•32m ago•1 comments

Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?

https://blog.greenpants.net/ai-accountability/
5•Greenpants•33m ago•0 comments

Metadata requests not tracked [since about a month ago] in PyPI download counts

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-08-31-download-counts/
1•zahlman•34m ago•0 comments

Code-rendered music video for "I'm Upping My P(doom)"

https://github.com/mexicat/pdoom-video
2•aziis98•35m ago•0 comments

Having a Good Frequency at VCFMW21

https://www.michaelwashere.net/post/2026-09-17-vcfmw-time/
1•geerlingguy•37m ago•0 comments

Can Jev Parse CSV?

https://remy.wang/blog/jev-csv.html
2•remywang•37m ago•1 comments