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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 :)

CICS Dungeon

https://github.com/mainframed/CICS_Dungeon
1•hggh•1m ago•0 comments

I Am a Silicon Valley Veteran. We Are Sabotaging Ourselves

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/09/opinion/ai-anthropic-doom-conscious.html
1•mikhael•3m ago•0 comments

The AI Boom Goes Nuclear

https://www.texasobserver.org/ai-boom-nuclear-energy-climate-change-texas-data-centers/
1•cdrnsf•3m ago•0 comments

Grok bot helped a guy disprove a stalking charge in divorce court

https://twitter.com/0xAlbus/status/2119502015554613344
2•Vaslo•4m ago•0 comments

Agentic Development Lifecycle with ReARM Boards: Integration Branch per Feature

https://rearmhq.com/blog/2026-11-09-rearm-boards-agentic-development-lifecycle/
1•taleodor•5m ago•0 comments

DBDelve: Open-Source DB Client Made with Rust and GPUI

1•shayan_abbas•5m ago•0 comments

When We Eat, or Don't Eat, May Be Critical for Health (2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/well/when-we-eat-or-dont-eat-may-be-critical-for-health.html
1•pretext•7m ago•0 comments

Unattended Reboots with Encrypted Disks

https://jmmv.dev/2026/11/zkeys-intro.html
1•birdculture•9m ago•0 comments

A rare strike in Taiwan exposes labor unrest beneath the global AI rush

https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-labor-strike-ai-profits/
3•higginsniggins•9m ago•0 comments

Reviving Programmer Happiness

https://www.rgianni.com/posts/reviving-programmer-happiness/
1•digitalWestie•11m ago•0 comments

Interleaf: An experimental tool for LLM assisted learning

https://interleaf.tulv.in/
1•atulvi•11m ago•1 comments

The first Unreal Engine release built primarily with agentic workflows

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-9-megajam-preview/2852840
1•lattalayta•12m ago•1 comments

MalloyBench: Language models write Malloy well with its compiler

https://www.getdot.ai/blog/malloybench
1•zurfer•12m ago•0 comments

Claude – just do my resume

https://claude-do-my-resume.pages.dev/
3•henryobj•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SteamPunk – swipe through and explore games on Steam

https://steampunk.sh/
1•linesofcode•16m ago•1 comments

Hello World

2•roccodina•16m ago•1 comments

Data intelligence in your app is as easy as a Git checkout

https://www.thoughtspot.com/webinar-ai-analytics-hands-on-lab
1•sleslesle•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wealthnow – a read-only financial data MCP server with OAuth sign-in

https://wealthnow.io/mcp
1•humbertolobog•18m ago•0 comments

Chewing gum releases microplastics into your saliva, UCLA research shows

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/bursting-your-bubble-chewing-gum-releases-microplastics-into-y...
2•randycupertino•18m ago•1 comments

Mail Pigeon – menu bar pigeon animation when new mail arrives on Mac

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mail-pigeon/id6815354905?mt=12
1•juplite•18m ago•0 comments

Supermarket-Fridge Hacks Show Risk of Linking Everything to the Internet

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/supermarket-fridge-hacks-show-risk-of-linking-everything-t...
1•julienchastang•21m ago•1 comments

As budgets tighten, people are breaking out their library cards

https://www.npr.org/2026/11/05/nx-s1-5992908/libraries-and-cost-of-living
1•toomuchtodo•21m ago•0 comments

EU Targets Addictive Social Media, AI Chatbot Features in Draft Law

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-09/eu-plans-crackdown-on-addictive-social-media-a...
7•Signez•25m ago•0 comments

AI code review has the order backwards

https://pullboard.dev/dispatches/1/the-bar-comes-first/
1•Olscore•25m ago•0 comments

Working with Excel

https://www.etl-tools.com/articles/excel-automation.html
1•etl-tools•25m ago•0 comments

Nuclear button Benchmark: I gave five AIs the nuclear button

https://samuelfitoussi.com/posts/nuclear-button-benchmark
2•adev_•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Warden MCP, an MCP server for agents to quote and trade onchain

https://wardenprotocol.org/mcp
1•becometa•25m ago•0 comments

Signs You're Working in a Feature Factory (2016)

https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory/
1•Seattle3503•26m ago•0 comments

We shrank DSV4-Pro by 24%, within 0.5pt of original on MMLU – Tileward

https://tileward.com/research/a-smaller-deepseek-v4-pro/
1•apsharma•27m ago•0 comments

New jobs in 140 years of data: Why the AI displacement fear is overstated

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/new-jobs-140-years-data-why-ai-displacement-fear-overstated-and-wh...
2•yogthos•28m ago•0 comments