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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 :)

Show HN: Reply to Your Comments with an API

https://mallary.ai/
1•samteeeee•21s ago•0 comments

Stripe's opt-out Radar price increase dressed up as a free trial

1•rapind•2m ago•0 comments

I built this for myself first

https://www.texturehq.com/blog/i-built-this-for-myself-first
1•victorquinn•4m ago•0 comments

Why extracting one page from a PDF requires rebuilding the document

https://utilitly.com/blog/how-to-split-and-extract-pdf-pages-securely
1•codeNinja96•4m ago•0 comments

Father of Apalachee school shooter has been sentenced to 15 years in prison

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/apalachee-school-shooting-father-shooter-faces-own-sentence-up-1...
3•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

Reference same-repository actions with self-repository syntax – GitHub Changelog

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-reference-same-repository-actions-with-self-repository-s...
1•smokeeaasd•5m ago•0 comments

An LLM-assisted security review of GlobaLeaks: 41 findings for –$3,140

https://www.isgroup.biz/en/cyber-security/llm-based-code-security-review-costs-findings-methodolo...
1•ascii•6m ago•0 comments

Africa Has a High-Speed Train; California Doesn't

https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=24073
1•speckx•8m ago•0 comments

Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part two: the bugfix

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/why-do-openai-gpt2-weights-beat-mine-2-the-bugfix
1•gpjt•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

https://www.ctgt.ai/research/distillation-censorship-transfer
3•cgorlla•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Doodlea.day – A daily step-by-step marker drawing lesson

https://doodlea.day/tutorials/cartoon-soda-can-with-fizz.html
1•mybbor•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ski – Voice Coding for Claude Code, Codex and More – On-Device – Free

https://heyski.io/
5•jomon003•12m ago•1 comments

Correction: "76% dead" was our bug, not the market's

https://pulsefeed.dev/correction
1•nikolife2016•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents

https://github.com/yashmahajan10/llm-differential-privacy-gateway
2•yashmahajan10•13m ago•0 comments

In Mauritania, every divorce is a reason to party

https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/mauritania-divorce-party
1•thunderbong•14m ago•0 comments

Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds

https://hannahilea.com/blog/birduino/
1•austinallegro•14m ago•0 comments

Miniature works of Ice Age art

https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/articl...
1•geox•19m ago•0 comments

Flock cameras are getting mobbed

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/us/flock-camera-vandalism-protests-cec
2•cdrnsf•19m ago•0 comments

Typosquatting was a spellcheck issue. Slopsquatting is a trust issue

https://www.vlt.io/blog/slopsquatting-trust-problem
1•usrrname•19m ago•0 comments

OpenAI cuts prices for GPT-5.6 AI models as companies grow sensitive to costs

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/open-ai-price-cut-gpt.html
3•Vaslo•20m ago•0 comments

Gradle Technologies Is Now Develocity

https://develocity.ai/blog/gradle-technologies-is-now-develocity/
1•LelouBil•21m ago•0 comments

Capita to lose money on pension debacle but has government's private parts in it

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366645700/Capita-to-lose-money-on-pension-debacle-but-has-gov...
1•latein•22m ago•0 comments

Russia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russia-charges-telegram-founder-pavel-durov-aiding-terrorism...
3•MehrdadKhnzd•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An online Live face swap app, no GPU need

https://livefaceswap.ai/
2•mixfox•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tally – check a spreadsheet's numbers against their source, in-browser

https://tally.jiegou.ai/
2•smperng•26m ago•0 comments

How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed

https://pudding.cool/2026/07/essential-words/
1•gmays•27m ago•0 comments

South Korea's stock market plunges as AI-driven boom fades

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/29/south-koreas-stock-market-plunges-as-ai-driven-boom-f...
2•thunderbong•28m ago•0 comments

OpenAI cuts GPT 5.6 Luna prices by 80%

https://twitter.com/sama/status/2082880720989532597
1•anigbrowl•29m ago•0 comments

CodePen 2.0

https://chriscoyier.net/2026/07/30/codepen-2-0/
2•robin_reala•29m ago•0 comments

My Days Doing Box Art for Video Games

https://jamesgurney.substack.com/p/my-days-doing-box-art-for-video-games
3•Michelangelo11•31m ago•0 comments