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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 :)

Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents

https://www.wired.com/story/massive-leak-exposes-41000-homeland-security-workers-including-underc...
1•Aboutplants•1m ago•0 comments

XReal Aura – Android XR Glasses

https://www.xreal.com/us/aura
1•thadt•3m ago•0 comments

Why headlights seem more blinding than ever

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2026/10/28/how-nighttime-driving-became-an-exercise...
1•bookofjoe•4m ago•1 comments

Errors in the Research of Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

https://saez-zucman-audit-replication.vercel.app/
1•paulpauper•6m ago•0 comments

LectureInk: Open-source study notes from video tutorials

https://github.com/SabitaKumariDev/LectureInk-V1
1•sabitak•7m ago•0 comments

How to Outrun the AI Hackers

https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-how-to-outrun-the-ai
1•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

Inequality in Equal Land

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/10/inequality-in-equal-land.html
1•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026

https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-d...
1•colewilson•9m ago•0 comments

In a Setback to VMware, Tesco Is Looking to Migrate to Proxmox

https://itsfoss.com/news/tesco-vmware-exit/
1•abdelhousni•10m ago•0 comments

When AI Does the Work, What Will Humans Do?

https://project507.substack.com/p/when-ai-does-the-work-what-will-humans
1•massigenta•12m ago•0 comments

DOJ is inquiring about Nvidia's purchase of Hugging Face

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-doj-is-inquiring-about-nvidias-purchase-hugging-face-sources-say...
1•TechTechTech•12m ago•0 comments

The case of the 9 bit AES key

https://v12.sh/blog/the-case-of-the-9bit-aes-key
1•ledoge•12m ago•1 comments

AI Startups Are Getting an Inch and Taking a Mile

https://tedium.co/2026/10/27/ai-startups-sketchy-behavior/
1•aray07•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why is pagination gone on "Ask HN", and showing only 19 items?

2•bigwheels•13m ago•0 comments

Jacquard Machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
1•derwiki•13m ago•0 comments

Latest Drop by DDoS Contains Contact Info for 40k DHS Employees

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/28/latest-drop-by-distributed-denial-of-secrets-ddos-contains-co...
1•DeepLogin•15m ago•0 comments

Cubecursor

https://cubecursor.shop
1•mythicalsafw•16m ago•0 comments

How, and Why, We're Adding A.I. Tools to NYT Cooking

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/insider/cooking-recipes-ai.html
2•max-ch•16m ago•1 comments

Leak website releases data on DHS employees

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/leak-website-releases-data-tens-thousands-dhs-employees-...
5•wondersky•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tool that finds reliability bugs in your code

1•aray07•18m ago•0 comments

Apple Touch

https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/apple-touch-screen-macbook-pro-2899-monthly-cost-with-apple-upgrade
1•skor•23m ago•0 comments

Climate Change Stopped the Next Ice Age

https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/climate-change-stopped-next-ice-age
1•geox•26m ago•0 comments

Goto Considered Sick (for error handling in C)

https://thestateofinahaze.net/blog/c-goto-considered-totally-sick/
1•majorchord•28m ago•1 comments

Synthetic survey respondents from real census data, with a calibration score

https://synthetic-audience.noniner.io
1•fredxhansson•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Enframe – Drop-in sidecar that wraps any OpenAPI spec to an MCP server

https://github.com/erwinkramer/enframe
1•r3versii•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Advise on monetization model for my freemium app wanted

1•neurodiv_dennis•30m ago•0 comments

Getting good at AI takes time and practice

https://www.seangoedecke.com/getting-good-at-ai-takes-time-and-practice/
2•tomwphillips•32m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Alternative to Tldraw Draw Fast?

2•outlore•34m ago•0 comments

lever: Feedback Loops for Coding Agents

https://github.com/github/lever
1•gfortaine•34m ago•0 comments

Hokum: Notifications for Wayland

https://hokum.app/
1•droidjj•36m ago•0 comments