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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 :)

Spatial Audio Synthesizer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5h1YP1ETZg
1•limbicsystem•1m ago•0 comments

Agentic Inequality

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16853
1•wslh•3m ago•0 comments

Currency Symbol for Indian Rupee (2010) [pdf]

https://web.archive.org/web/20100821132944/https://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/events/Indian_Rupee_Symbol.pdf
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Early Retirement Taught Me That We've All Been Sold a Lie? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBZfBZPwQZE
1•adletbalzhanov•6m ago•0 comments

The LLM is not Intelligence

https://www.vivekv.info/posts/llm-is-not-intelligent
1•vivekv•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: OpenCode2 HUD

https://github.com/ndom91/opencode-hud
1•ndom91•12m ago•0 comments

Fears of AI-induced armageddon are overdone

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/23/fears-of-ai-induced-armageddon-are-overdone
1•paulpauper•13m ago•0 comments

She Popularized Economics. Then She Was Erased from History. Why?

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2•paulpauper•13m ago•0 comments

Interview with Oofoe about REBOL, Forth, Decker, Janet and the VFX Industry

https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-oofoe/
1•veqq•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Claude Skills Starter Kit – 198 modular skills for AI agents

https://github.com/yevhens-hue/claude-skills-starter-kit
2•eshaforostov•15m ago•0 comments

The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati

https://micahflee.com/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati/
1•cdrnsf•15m ago•0 comments

Edtech's pandemic boom is over as K-12 startup funding craters

https://restofworld.org/2026/edtech-funding-collapse-k12-startups-ai-workforce/
1•vinnyglennon•17m ago•0 comments

I built a Beleg – SHA-256 hash-chained provenance ledger, anchored to BTC

https://belegapp.com
1•lsun582•18m ago•0 comments

Could AI revive the socialist dream?

https://www.ft.com/content/cd3fcbff-8512-41cf-90eb-f87840c7c20c
1•Emma_Goldman•18m ago•0 comments

DBR-Me: Hardware-Aware O(1) In-Register Decompression

https://zenodo.org/records/22149527
1•SGBHAI•20m ago•0 comments

Bringing modern USB xHCI support to Windows 98/2K

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Copycats in Apple Books

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3•ingve•22m ago•0 comments

UltraHDR gain map implementation for JavaScript/TypeScript

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1•realsarm•22m ago•0 comments

Google Bows to Trump, Renames 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' in Google Maps

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2•bundie•22m ago•1 comments

Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires

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United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola

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Estimates of Global Burden of Snakebite

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Zero Trust in someone else's environment

https://byocanywhere.org
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PlateChat

https://talkwithlicenseplates.vercel.app/
1•mayankm•26m ago•1 comments

An 'old school' San Jose barber is now teaching robots to cut hair with AI

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1•ChrisArchitect•28m ago•0 comments

Everything's broken and nobody's upset (2012)

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1•chrisjj•31m ago•0 comments

MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, More Social Learning

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/28/mit-ai-rep...
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The Evolution of the Agent Harness

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An Implementation of Scheme in Rust

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What Dolly, then it's remnants (AL97), taught my weather site about wind gusts

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3•ashitlerferad•35m ago•1 comments