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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 :)

Massing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massing
1•tosh•2m ago•0 comments

This website runs on a Raspberry Pi 4B with only 1 GB of RAM

https://pi.deepakness.com/
1•7777777phil•4m ago•0 comments

Pace the frontier but stop pretending you need anyone else's permission

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460
1•caaqil•5m ago•0 comments

Software Engineer: I'm Tired of Pretending [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0HwFqBG9KE
1•conferza•7m ago•0 comments

OpenAI built a text generator so good, it's considered too dangerous (2019)

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/openai-text-generator-dangerous/
1•olalonde•8m ago•0 comments

Keep calm and regulate on: Inside the EU's response to AI extinction warnings

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-response-ai-extinction-warnings/
1•vrganj•8m ago•1 comments

Monitoring Mint with Microcontrollers Running TinyGo

https://www.mrnice.dev/posts/monitoring-mint-part-1/
1•ShayNehmad•9m ago•1 comments

JetKVM Mini

https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini
1•taubek•10m ago•0 comments

A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either)

https://maurycyz.com/misc/domains/
2•birdculture•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fly or Tesla – Compare the cost, time, and stress of flights vs. FSD

https://flyortesla.com/
1•optimizethis•16m ago•3 comments

How are you using a Desktop or Browser AI agent daily?

2•Qhloi•18m ago•0 comments

American Medical Association backs classification of nearsightedness as disease

https://www.aao.org/newsroom/news-releases/detail/ama-backs-formal-classification-nearsightedness
13•plun9•24m ago•2 comments

A remote island, these GPS hackers are preparing for an invisible war

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260908-inside-the-fight-to-protect-the-worlds-satellite-signals
2•rayhaanj•25m ago•0 comments

AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kx0gyje9wo
1•dabinat•26m ago•0 comments

Africa's Airliner Fleet May More Than Double by 2045

https://humanprogress.org/africas-commercial-fleet-to-more-than-double-by-2045/
1•andsoitis•29m ago•0 comments

Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/astra-running-routes/
1•tosh•31m ago•0 comments

A metaphorical "Royal Road" in famous quotations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Road
1•Bluestein•31m ago•0 comments

Life in Numbers

https://humanprogress.org/ylin/
1•andsoitis•32m ago•0 comments

Huawei Mate XT 2 hands on ($3000 trifold) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRrS54oHqlw
1•djfergus•32m ago•0 comments

AI agents tested by OpenAI involved in cyber-attack on service, say researchers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/11/openai-agents-rubygems-malicious-packages
2•nobody9999•34m ago•0 comments

Life Options Are Expanding

https://humanprogress.org/trends/life-options-are-expanding/
1•andsoitis•34m ago•0 comments

New Science Says Scrapping a Working Gas Car for an EV Is Usually Greener

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/16/scrapping-working-gas-car-for-ev-can-be-greener/
1•xbmcuser•39m ago•0 comments

Chimps beat people in memory task (2007)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/dec/04/animalbehaviour.evolution
1•mellosouls•39m ago•0 comments

Remove the need for planning permission for external shutters on properties (UK)

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/778193
1•DamonHD•42m ago•0 comments

I rebuilt iMessage line for line. Nobody wanted it

https://sage.me/imessage
3•blsage•44m ago•1 comments

The News Tonight Is AI Danger

https://cmart.blog/the-news-tonight-is-ai-danger/
3•chrismartin•46m ago•0 comments

Designing Cycle-Exact Delays on Several 8-Bit CPUs

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/designing-cycle-exact-delays-on-several-8-bit-cpus/
1•ibobev•47m ago•0 comments

Nanite Cluster Memory

https://real-mrbeam.github.io/2026/09/12/Nanite-Cluster-Memory.html
2•ibobev•48m ago•0 comments

Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/09/11/sierra-digital-cameras-on-the-apple-ii/
2•ibobev•48m ago•0 comments

TuragaLab/flybody: MuJoCo fruit fly body model and locomotion RL tasks

https://github.com/TuragaLab/flybody
1•olalonde•50m ago•0 comments