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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 :)

The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source

https://www.modular.com/blog/modcon-announcements
1•flaburgan•34s ago•1 comments

Made an open source budgeting application (Coinvane)

https://github.com/JKJWL/Coinvane
1•JKJWL•40s ago•1 comments

Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires

https://danluu.com/exercise-7/
1•yosefk•2m ago•0 comments

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong

https://nautil.us/where-human-sleep-went-wrong-1283797
2•XzetaU8•7m ago•0 comments

AI Marketing Stash: a directory for discovering AI marketing tools

https://www.aimarketingstash.com
1•Tlesenechal•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tracepack – Build local-first evidence packs from your files

https://dev.tracepack.org/
1•ace2016•9m ago•0 comments

ProtectEU Strategy to Counter Hybrid Threats Targets Encrypted Communications

https://balkaninsight.com/2025/04/01/protecteu-strategy-to-counter-hybrid-threats-targets-encrypt...
1•miohtama•9m ago•0 comments

US sanctions International Criminal Court president and trial lawyer

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/18/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-president-and-...
1•rzk•11m ago•0 comments

"Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/sabotage-experts-lawmakers-blast-rfk-jr-for-destroying-hea...
3•01-_-•11m ago•0 comments

Harvard, MIT among 30 US universities ordered to audit China research ties

https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3364485/harvard-mit-among-30-us-universities-order...
2•01-_-•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Superprez.io – Sharing and Collaboration for AI-Generated Decks

https://www.superprez.io
1•elsaelsa•15m ago•0 comments

2004 Harvard–Yale Prank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Harvard%E2%80%93Yale_prank
1•toilet•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source extension to transfer AI chats without losing context

https://github.com/VC067/MoveChat
1•VC067•17m ago•0 comments

GitLab CVE-2026-19478: GraphQL authorization bypass

https://techupdate24.com/gitlab-cve-2026-19478-graphql-flaw/
1•sysadmin_diarie•18m ago•0 comments

AI-generated candidate proof of a causal guarantee for RACE attention [pdf]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Jh_ITQWQbM40REfNayPbS98lyk0EUTG/view?usp=drive_link
1•Rufty•19m ago•0 comments

Taking photos or screenshots makes you more likely to forget information

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/6397/digital-amnesia-taking-screenshots-makes-you-more-like...
1•nreece•19m ago•0 comments

Moby Dick has 26 em dashes per 1000 words. Pride and Prejudice has none

https://claudewatermark.xyz/guides/moby-dick-87-em-dashes
2•ofir_smol•20m ago•1 comments

Zombie Cards Back Online: Reviving Expired Credit Cards for Contactless Payments

https://khwarizmilab.github.io/emvexpiredcards/
1•Markoff•20m ago•0 comments

Hoog – The Hugging Face Hack [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO225IfoR3s
1•Topfi•24m ago•0 comments

The Cast-Iron Company That Has Been Controlled by the Same Family for 130 Years

https://www.wsj.com/business/the-cast-iron-company-that-has-been-controlled-by-the-same-family-fo...
1•thm•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A 3D insect field guide where every specimen is generated from code

https://insect-world.pages.dev/
1•XR843•26m ago•0 comments

Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-crypto-firm-backs-venture-offering-ai-restricted-chines...
1•petethomas•27m ago•0 comments

New images reveal before/after when a SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/science/nasa-images-spacex-rocket-moon-collision
4•giuliomagnifico•28m ago•0 comments

Japan's farmers go nocturnal as deadly heat intensifies

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-japan-farmers/
3•petethomas•28m ago•0 comments

Headed for the Exit: The Great Engineering Leader Career Break

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-great-engineering-leader-career-break
1•pjmlp•28m ago•0 comments

Vetted AI code is hard to justify

https://amoffat.github.io/blog/vetting-burnout.html
1•birdculture•31m ago•2 comments

CodeX v0.148.0 cannot use GPT-5.6 Sol

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/39397
1•linzhangrun•32m ago•1 comments

Building Without Predicting

https://sive.rs/fit
1•tosh•39m ago•1 comments

Humble Bundle: Embedded Firmware Books on ARM, RTOS, RISC-V and Linux

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/embedded-firmware-developer-toolkit-packt-books
2•NehaPande•40m ago•1 comments

Berd

https://berd.xyz
2•tosh•41m ago•0 comments