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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•7mo ago

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kuberwastaken•7mo 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 :)

Self-hosted RSS reader with Docker and HTTPS

https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/selfhosted-reader
2•ggeorgovassilis•8m ago•1 comments

John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5M for Public Broadcasting

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/05/john-oliver-auction-raises-1-5-million-for-public-broadcasting/
2•thunderbong•9m ago•0 comments

US Flips History by Casting Europe–Not Russia–As Villain in New Security Policy

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-flips-history-by-casting-europenot-russiaas-villain-in-new-s...
3•layer8•9m ago•0 comments

Desantis Proposal for Citizens Bill of Rights for AI

https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/governor-ron-desantis-announces-proposal-citizen-bill-r...
1•yankeehue•16m ago•0 comments

Why Apple Is Moving Intelligence Back to Your Laptop

https://www.apple.com/
3•alternativeto•17m ago•1 comments

Mapping cell dynamics in hair follicles suggests pull mechanism of hair growth

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65143-x
1•rbanffy•18m ago•0 comments

'Life being stressful is not an illness' – GPS on mental health over-diagnosis

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2pvxdn9v4o
3•jnord•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: GitHub Organisation Years in review stats

https://github.com/Tazer/years-in-review
3•tazer•20m ago•1 comments

Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water

https://www.wired.com/story/why-tehran-is-running-out-of-water-iran-climate-change-drought-extrem...
2•quapster•21m ago•0 comments

Iosevka – Versatile typeface for code, from code

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
1•gjvc•24m ago•0 comments

Replit Design Mode

https://blog.replit.com/design-mode
2•555imon•30m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.5 Gave Me a Perfect Tmux Setup

https://www.hadijaveed.me/2025/12/05/how-claude-opus-gave-me-perfect-tmux-setup/
2•hjaveed•32m ago•0 comments

Apple Interface Design Executive Left for Meta

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
2•SoKamil•32m ago•0 comments

llama2.zig: Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure Zig

https://github.com/cgbur/llama2.zig
3•tosh•33m ago•0 comments

Cryptids

https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Cryptids
1•frozenseven•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WDP – A protocol where data migrates to survive seizure

https://github.com/dododbobovo-commits/wdp
1•__VECTOR•47m ago•0 comments

We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains

https://www.thefp.com/p/we-gave-students-laptops-and-took
3•tzury•48m ago•0 comments

Lessons from a Swift Interview

https://oskargroth.com/blog/swift-interview-lessons
1•cindori•53m ago•0 comments

Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 – lack proper encryption

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/swiss-government-urges-people-to-ditch-microsoft-365-and-o...
13•pseudolus•55m ago•1 comments

OpenRouter Broadcast

https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/broadcast/overview
2•Topfi•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Holesail – open-source peer-to-peer tunnels

https://holesail.io/
1•supersuryaansh•59m ago•2 comments

I Pushed an LLM (Claude Opus 4.1) to Its Narrative Limit

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1•olvy0•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scanner SEO Internationalization (Free)

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3•intlayer_org•1h ago•0 comments

How to spot a startup that can turn into a mafia?

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2•skilldeliver•1h ago•0 comments

Autism's Confusing Cousins

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/autisms-confusing-cousins
3•Anon84•1h ago•0 comments

Octo: A Chip8 IDE

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tokenization of Real Estate on Blockchain

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Dynamic Pong Wars

https://markodenic.tech/dynamic-pong-wars/
3•rendall•1h ago•0 comments

Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Berlin-Police-can-secretly-enter-homes-for-state-trojan-installation...
7•u_sama•1h ago•3 comments

Pixel phone can now be used as a webcam for the Nintendo Switch 2

https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-phone-as-switch-2-webcam-3622443/
2•notmine1337•1h ago•0 comments