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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•11mo ago

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kuberwastaken•11mo 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 :)

Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury rules

https://www.theverge.com/policy/912689/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-monopoly-trial-verdict
2•speckx•40s ago•0 comments

I analyzed the $60B Treasury Judgment Fund – 2020 was 10x a normal year

https://settlementinsight.com/research/federal-government-payments
1•govledger•2m ago•1 comments

Is Woody Brown the Author of His Novel?

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1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

We rebuilt a mobile app from scratch. What it means for work with AI

https://www.slash.com/engineering/blog/new-mobile-app
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Plain Text Accounting and Financial Reporting

https://ztoz.blog/posts/plaintext-accounting-reporting/
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4•Alex_Bond•5m ago•0 comments

Cinematic Motion, Stuttery Motion, and the Soap Opera Effect

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2•dgroshev•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BPR – deriving 87 physical constants from 2 integers (MIT, 1,225 tests)

https://github.com/jackalkahwati/BPR-Math-ine
2•iq19zero•8m ago•0 comments

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

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2•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

I wrote a open source iMessage for your AI agents

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The Internet Is a Place

https://catskull.net/the-internet-is-a-vast-place.html
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Don't Use A.I. To Do This

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/art-artificial-intelligence.html
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Interval-Aware Caching for Druid at Netflix Scale

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3•wb14123•11m ago•0 comments

AI Could Democratize One of Techs Most Valuable Resources

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3•technoabsurdist•12m ago•0 comments

Meta commits to 1 GW with Broadcom, Hock Tan to leave board

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3•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Sanity-check my numbers on EVs and solar power

2•zahlman•13m ago•0 comments

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250
3•Cyclone_•13m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/rccyx/lookas
2•rccyx•19m ago•1 comments

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A Survey of Workflow Optimization for LLM Agents

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2•PaulHoule•19m ago•0 comments

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Taxpayers to spend $477B on tax season

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2•speckx•22m ago•1 comments

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2•sph•22m ago•1 comments

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2•ashvardanian•23m ago•0 comments

Empedocles fragments found in Egypt

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2•Iuz•26m ago•0 comments

Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' crashed through railroad gate seconds before train

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4•Bender•26m ago•0 comments

Thomson Reuters Fired Worker for Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says

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17•Brajeshwar•27m ago•3 comments

Simdutf Can Now Be Used Without Libc++ or Libc++ABI

https://mitchellh.com/writing/simdutf-no-libcxx
3•cdrnsf•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Playbach.io, browser rhythm game (desktop)

https://playbach.io/
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Arm comes to the Framework 13 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIb87SJ4xwo
5•znpy•30m ago•0 comments