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Syria was building a nuclear reactor under Assad, UN reports

https://apnews.com/article/iaea-report-syria-nuclear-bashar-assad-b941d7d11da6fb8912ae2bed0b34cec2
1•geox•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Structure from Attention

https://mostlyk.substack.com/p/structure-from-attention
1•mostlyk•4m ago•0 comments

Meta's Muse Voice Transcribe handles real-time speech

https://forgeeks.net/meta-muse-voice-transcribe-release/
2•ledoncool•6m ago•0 comments

Qwen3.8-Max

https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen3.8-max-0902
2•Bluestein•7m ago•2 comments

Cutting LLM inference costs by 36% with prompt caching

https://www.neradot.com/post/cutting-inference-cost-36-percent-with-prompt-caching
1•lizakatz•7m ago•0 comments

OpenVINO: AI Plugins for Audacity

https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity
1•marklit•7m ago•0 comments

Stewardship not ownership: AI and LLM-generated written English

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10993-026-09798-2
2•teleforce•8m ago•0 comments

Bicycle Robot (2020) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bNVqe_1xY
1•iamanatom•8m ago•0 comments

Emily Wilson to retranslate the Odyssey from scratch

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/01/emily-wilson-to-retranslate-the-odyssey-from-scratc...
2•mdp2021•9m ago•0 comments

How Trump Plans to Steal the Midterm Elections, According to a Whistleblower

https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-trump-plans-to-steal-the-midterm-elections-according-to-a-whistlebl...
4•hochmartinez•12m ago•0 comments

ITA Controlled English (CE)

https://github.com/ce-store/ce-store
1•teleforce•14m ago•0 comments

Attempto project: Attempto Control English (ACE) and its tools

https://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/
1•teleforce•16m ago•0 comments

Logica: Enhanced Datalog Compiled to SQL

https://logica-lang.github.io/
1•RebelPotato•17m ago•0 comments

Climate Trace Releases May 2026 Emissions Data

https://climatetrace.org/news/climate-trace-releases-may-2026-emissions-data
2•leonidasrup•17m ago•0 comments

Findings Report on the July 8th Telstra Outage [pdf]

https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-projects/luke-campbell/TAP-Findings-for...
2•martyvis•17m ago•1 comments

Care for a Little More AI?

https://proofsandprompts.com/2026/08/30/care-for-a-little-more-ai/
2•rzk•23m ago•0 comments

Where the brain ends and the mind begins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XklvcYMSvAU
1•dr_dshiv•25m ago•0 comments

Qwen3.8-Max just got upgraded

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2094968708288680276
2•mydreamof•25m ago•2 comments

Thousands of University of Sydney staff on strike over AI and job security

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/02/we-have-had-enough-thousands-of-staff-at-t...
4•hochmartinez•27m ago•0 comments

Making of Jonathan Blow's Newest Game, Part I: The Game Design Supercollider

https://www.orderofthesinkingstar.com/en/news/article/11582786
2•helloplanets•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: In EU: what tech conferences you won't miss?

1•znpy•32m ago•1 comments

The Toothbrush Test

https://danromero.org/the-toothbrush-test.html
2•baxtr•34m ago•0 comments

Xanadu Was Waiting for Agents

https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu
1•tosh•34m ago•0 comments

Google Scholar profile shadowbanned (with no recourse)

2•chsreekar•40m ago•0 comments

A New Observable

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/a-new-observable
3•matt_daemon•48m ago•0 comments

Rule Against Perpetuities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
2•chistev•50m ago•0 comments

Claude Fable 5.1 tops Artificial Analysis Index but costs 20% more

https://twitter.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2094881171066978525
1•tosh•53m ago•0 comments

Fake 10 Downing Street listing exposes 'unfit' Booking.com, says consumer group

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly4e0wn452o
2•1659447091•56m ago•0 comments

Alex van Halen Knighted

https://www.vhnd.com/2026/09/01/alex-van-halen-knighted/
2•28304283409234•1h ago•0 comments

Architecture of Disappearance: The Kill Cloud's Dispersal of Violence

https://disruption.institute/fellows/cian-westmoreland
1•rendx•1h ago•0 comments
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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 :)