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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•8mo ago

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kuberwastaken•8mo 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 :)

Show HN: V2.4.9 – Environment Variable Validation for SvelteKit and Next.js

https://github.com/Chrilleweb/dotenv-diff
1•casmn•23s ago•0 comments

DeepSeek research touts memory breakthrough

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-touts-memory-breakthr...
1•jonbaer•1m ago•0 comments

The Jaw Epidemic: Recognition, Origins, Cures, and Prevention

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/9/759/5872832?login=false
1•gushogg-blake•2m ago•0 comments

Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07372
1•jonbaer•2m ago•0 comments

ClickHouse on Kubernetes: Anthropic on Air-Gapped Deployment [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrLKbzdFEWA
1•tosh•3m ago•0 comments

Apple Says 'Pixelmator' App on iOS Will No Longer Receive Updates

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/13/pixelmator-no-longer-being-updated/
2•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

EditYourDocuments

https://edityourdocuments.com/
1•Radhan•6m ago•0 comments

Netflix Weighs Amending Warner Bros. Bid to Make It All Cash

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-13/netflix-weighs-amending-warner-bros-bid-to-mak...
1•mfiguiere•8m ago•0 comments

Tangled: Decentralized Git hosting and collaboration platform

https://tangled.org/
3•maxloh•9m ago•0 comments

Tuicr – Terminal UI for Code Review

https://tuicr.dev/
1•agavra•9m ago•0 comments

Writing high-signal comments to guide AI coding agents

https://github.com/ovidiuiliescu/AiComments
1•ovvyblabla•11m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: The insane price hike of internal SSDs

1•malshe•11m ago•0 comments

Humanoid Robots Are Here… and Embarrassingly Bad at Being Our Servants

https://gizmodo.com/humanoid-robots-are-here-and-embarrassingly-bad-at-being-our-servants-ces-202...
1•voxadam•11m ago•0 comments

Games Workshop bans staff from using AI, management not excited about the tech

https://www.ign.com/articles/warhammer-maker-games-workshop-bans-its-staff-from-using-ai-in-its-c...
7•jsheard•12m ago•0 comments

Shopify, Walmart Endorse Google's New Open Commerce Protocol

https://thenewstack.io/shopify-walmart-endorse-googles-new-open-commerce-protocol/
1•CrankyBear•13m ago•0 comments

Recursive structural pattern matching – mathspp

https://mathspp.com/blog/recursive-structural-pattern-matching
2•rbanffy•14m ago•0 comments

Unit testing your code's performance, part 1: Big-O scaling

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/big-o-tests/
1•rbanffy•14m ago•0 comments

TigerBeetle: Financial transactions database designed for safety and performance

https://tigerbeetle.com/
1•maxloh•14m ago•0 comments

Making hypermadia-driven applications feel faster

https://postomator.com/updates/
1•postshakeman•15m ago•0 comments

No one is evaluating AI coding agents in the way they are used

https://marginlab.ai/blog/the-problem-with-coding-benchmarks/
1•qwesr123•16m ago•0 comments

CSS Grid Native Masonry Layout

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Grid_layout/Masonry_layout
1•doodlesdev•18m ago•0 comments

Chrome DevTools (MCP) for your AI agent

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp
1•lobo_tuerto•19m ago•0 comments

Can Apple read your iMessages? (2013)

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/26/can-apple-read-your-imessages/
2•chistev•24m ago•0 comments

Intel could blow up the Console Wars (if it had the guts)

1•noumenon1111•25m ago•0 comments

Poll: Do you use RSS in 2026?

1•Darkstryder•25m ago•1 comments

'Molecular microscope' reveals greener path to ammonia

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-molecular-microscope-reveals-greener-path.html
1•PaulHoule•25m ago•0 comments

Organizing My Stuff

https://bezoar.org/posts/2020/0203/organizing-my-stuff/
1•thunderbong•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Print Your Anki Decks to Paper

https://evan.widloski.com/ankiprint/
1•Evidlo•27m ago•0 comments

AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking dark

https://fortune.com/2026/01/07/ai-layoffs-convenient-corporate-fiction-true-false-oxford-economic...
4•xbmcuser•27m ago•0 comments

OCR Isn't Good Enough: From Medical Faxes to Structured Data

https://robert-mcdermott.medium.com/ocr-isnt-good-enough-from-faxes-to-structured-data-1302d60344c6
1•mcdermott•30m ago•0 comments