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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 :)

Ask HN: Why is Apple's voice transcription hilariously bad?

1•keepamovin•1m ago•0 comments

Disney to integrate Hulu and Disney+ in 2026

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-12-30/disney-to-integrate-hulu-dis...
1•indigodaddy•1m ago•0 comments

Exposed: Shedding Blacklight on Online Privacy

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24041
1•neehao•2m ago•0 comments

FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-closes-the-laptop-gap-year-one-project-update/
1•yunnpp•2m ago•0 comments

A Dynamic Causal Information (D-CUFT) for Multi-Scale Biological Stability

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12H-_Mqi3bqpN-jN_th1-jgrcQHQkn-l1
1•Asheed•3m ago•0 comments

ExpressiveMD – A typed, language agnostic, MD templating engine for the future

https://github.com/xray/ExpressiveMD
1•jakelamb•4m ago•0 comments

Protecting Signal Keys on Desktop (2024-11)

https://cryptographycaffe.sandboxaq.com/posts/protecting-signal-desktop-keys/
1•miduil•4m ago•0 comments

Writing an NES Emulator in Haskell

https://arthi-chaud.github.io/posts/funes/
1•yunnpp•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Elliptica – Make Art with Elliptic Boundary Value Problems

https://github.com/afolkest/elliptica
1•afolkest•6m ago•0 comments

Systemd Portable Services Are Pretty Good

https://rukulkarni.com/blog/systemd-portable-services/
1•blixtra•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A pet link saver OSS project that keeps growing

https://linkversity.lol/
1•osdotsystem•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VS-1: an audio sample tournament sorter

https://github.com/alexfedosov/vs-1
2•alex_x•11m ago•0 comments

China Signals It Won't Give an Inch to the U.S. in Latin America

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/china-signals-it-wont-give-an-inch-to-the-u-s-in-latin-america...
3•JumpCrisscross•11m ago•0 comments

Expanding in Three Dimensions [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEJZlGuWGV8
1•ColinWright•11m ago•0 comments

Chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/03/chemicals-found-english-soil-toxins-medical-s...
1•PaulHoule•13m ago•0 comments

Russia Asks United States to Stop Pursuit of Fleeing Oil Tanker

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/us/politics/russia-oil-tanker-venezuela-us-pursuit.html
4•JumpCrisscross•13m ago•1 comments

Repeat Moviegoers Help Hollywood Eke Out a Slightly Better 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/business/cinema-hollywood-2025-ticket-sales.html
1•JumpCrisscross•13m ago•0 comments

Language Server Protocol server for System/360 COBOL F (1968) and PL/I F (1965)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ZaneHambly.ibm-system360-languages
2•rbanffy•17m ago•0 comments

We built LAN Orangutan, a lightweight network scanner

https://github.com/291-Group/LAN-Orangutan
1•291Group•18m ago•1 comments

The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber
1•Fnoord•19m ago•0 comments

Recursive Language Models: the paradigm of 2026

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1•skhameneh•19m ago•0 comments

Sundas

https://sundaskhalid.substack.com/subscribe
1•Cat27groenland•19m ago•0 comments

Testing Frontier LLMs on Space Rangers 2 Text Quests

https://nikitakutz.substack.com/p/why-llms-fail-on-quest-games-any
1•chaoz_•21m ago•1 comments

Stonebraker: One size fits none: everything you learned in your DBMS class is wr

https://slideshot.epfl.ch/play/suri_stonebraker
1•fanf2•23m ago•0 comments

Can Bundler Be as Fast as Uv?

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4•ibobev•27m ago•0 comments

Parkinson's Law (1955) [pdf]

https://doc.cat-v.org/economics/parkinsons-law/the-economist-article.pdf
1•rrjjww•28m ago•0 comments

The Package Merge Algorithm

https://aniruddhadeb.com/cs/algorithms/package-merge
1•hairband_dude•28m ago•0 comments

A Path to Platform Engineering – Beginners Guide

https://www.zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/a-path-to-platform-engineering-beginners
2•paniq1991•29m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from Scratch: Interpreters, Art, Emulators, and ML in Python

https://computersciencefromscratch.com/
1•WoodenChair•31m ago•0 comments

God Mode UX: Why AI Agent Interfaces Will Look More Like StarCraft Than Slack

https://medium.com/sadasant/god-mode-ux-why-your-next-interface-will-look-more-like-starcraft-tha...
1•walterbell•34m ago•1 comments