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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 :)

An edtech pro uses Raspberry Pis as thin clients

https://www.itbrew.com/stories/how-an-edtech-pro-uses-raspberry-pis-as-thin-clients
1•EmOverAll•3m ago•0 comments

How to build fast hierarchies for game objects using data oriented design

https://ajmmertens.medium.com/building-an-ecs-data-oriented-hierarchies-62fb2847d100
1•ajmmertens•3m ago•0 comments

Announcing the Building 32 podcast, from MIT CSAIL Alliances

https://cap.csail.mit.edu/podcasts/announcing-building-32-mit-csail-alliances
1•emigre•4m ago•0 comments

Silent Data Corruptions at Scale

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11245
1•rbanffy•4m ago•0 comments

People are betting on wildfires. Should they?

https://www.hcn.org/articles/people-are-betting-on-wildfires-should-they/
1•jaredwiener•5m ago•0 comments

The warped space of M C Escher

https://michaelhogguk.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/the-warped-space-of-m-c-escher/
1•behnamoh•7m ago•0 comments

Why BlackRock, Nvidia, and Temasek are betting billions on quantum computing

https://fortune.com/2026/06/29/blackrock-nvidia-temasek-betting-billions-quantum-computing/
2•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Taking an Up-Close Look at the Supermicro GB300 Super AI Station – ServeTheHome

https://www.servethehome.com/taking-an-up-close-look-at-the-supermicro-gb300-super-ai-station/
1•rbanffy•7m ago•0 comments

An interactive PyTorch debugger that looks deep inside your neural net

https://github.com/kongaskristjan/nansense
1•krussikas•7m ago•0 comments

Pocket Raises $11M as Demand Surges for Its Personal AI Assistant Device

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/pocket-raises-11m-accel-others-130000605.html
1•doppp•10m ago•0 comments

How Reality Gets Lost Inside Organizations

https://therealitydrift.substack.com/p/the-mechanics-of-organizational-drift
1•realitydrift•11m ago•0 comments

Ethical NBA Champions

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/ethical-champions/
2•rognjen•11m ago•0 comments

Updated Raspberry Pi OS with Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits

https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-os-linux-618
3•rbanffy•11m ago•0 comments

My own test set lied to me

https://medium.com/@alanscottencinas/when-your-own-validation-set-lies-to-you-48539d537e3e
1•encinas88•12m ago•0 comments

Is Buying a House a Good Investment? (Not Compared to Buying Stocks

https://www.afcpe.org/news-and-publications/the-standard/2017-2/is-buying-a-house-a-good-investme...
2•skadamat•12m ago•0 comments

Local-first SSH/SFTP/Serial client for infrastructure engineers

https://ptyxl.com
1•httppp•15m ago•0 comments

The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer)

https://github.com/macshome/The-Wisdom-of-Quinn
1•gregsadetsky•15m ago•1 comments

X (formerly Twitter) releases X Chat app on Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.x.chat&hl=en_US
1•Jotalea•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lrcmux, one lyrics API to rule them all

https://lrcmux.dev
2•f1nniboy•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Empirical – Your Personal AI Memory, Across Every AI Tool

https://empirical.gauzza.com/
1•cheeseliz•15m ago•0 comments

Why some Project Sunrise flights will go over the North Pole

https://www.headforpoints.com/2026/06/29/project-sunrise-north-pole-route/
1•edward•15m ago•0 comments

We Split PDF Table Extraction Across 6 Agents and a Codegen Step

https://unstract.com/blog/multi-agent-pdf-table-extraction/
1•naren87•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fastsleep.app - An App for Nighttime Overthinkers

https://fastsleep.app/
1•greybox555•16m ago•1 comments

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1
2•danboarder•18m ago•0 comments

TurboRes, an fast WASM Apple ProRes decoder (2x faster than FFmpeg)

https://github.com/Vanilagy/turbores
1•vanilagy•18m ago•0 comments

Client-Side Load Balancing at a Million Requests per Second

https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2026/06/client-side-load-balancing.html
2•speckx•24m ago•0 comments

Zero emission truck deployments SURGED up 37% in 2025 as momentum builds

https://electrek.co/2026/06/28/zero-emission-truck-deployments-surged-up-37-in-2025-as-momentum-b...
1•Brajeshwar•25m ago•0 comments

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/
54•stared•29m ago•18 comments

Storage: How to deduplicate at intra and inter-files level

https://old.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/comments/1uiybbn/save_storage_by_deduplicating_parquet_d...
1•lhoestq•30m ago•0 comments

How Claude Code and Codex approach sandboxing

https://instavm.io/blog/how-claude-code-and-codex-approach-sandboxing
2•mkagenius•30m ago•1 comments