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TikTok closes deal with White House to split US app from global business

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cp374n3ggngt
1•1659447091•7m ago•0 comments

Walmart Commerce SDK for Unity video games

https://xcancel.com/unitygames/status/2014005383837126901
1•qingcharles•12m ago•0 comments

Schools, airports, high-rise towers: architects urged to get 'bamboo-ready'

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/22/bamboo-architecture-construction-engineering-...
1•pseudolus•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CleanAF – One-click Desktop cleaner for Windows

https://github.com/TheZemmouri/CleanAF
2•Zemmouri•17m ago•0 comments

What a Standoff with a Black Bear Taught Me about Life in Northern Alberta

https://thewalrus.ca/what-a-standoff-with-a-black-bear-taught-me/
1•pseudolus•19m ago•0 comments

Doomsday-Prepping for Trump's Third Term

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/dmitri-mehlhorn-trump-third-term/685693/
3•petethomas•19m ago•0 comments

Cockpit Automation – Advantages and Safety Challenges

https://skybrary.aero/articles/cockpit-automation-advantages-and-safety-challenges
1•ceroxylon•22m ago•1 comments

Code: Testing acceleration-domain normalization on SPARC galaxy data

https://github.com/JasonResearch/Brown-J-Invariant
1•JasonResearch•22m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Does DDG no longer honor "site:" prefix?

6•everybodyknows•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An agent sandboxing quickstart based on Claude Code

https://github.com/lebovic/agent-quickstart
1•lebovic•31m ago•0 comments

How Claude Code Compaction Works

https://decodeclaude.com/claude-code-compaction/
1•moona3k•33m ago•0 comments

ELT and MCP: exposing warehouse data to LLMs without shipping the data

https://thenewstack.io/how-precog-adds-business-context-to-make-enterprise-data-ai-ready/
1•jfinegold•38m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: We have not yet discovered the rules of vibe coding

1•0xbadcafebee•39m ago•0 comments

Tesla patents 'clever math trick' for HW3, but nothing points to promised FSD

https://electrek.co/2026/01/21/tesla-patents-clever-math-trick-hw3-nothing-delivering-promised-se...
2•breve•40m ago•0 comments

China's oldest carmaker begins testing solid-state EV batteries in vehicles

https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/chinas-oldest-carmaker-begins-testing-solid-state-ev-batteries/
2•breve•45m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Please wish me luck for my exam

3•Imustaskforhelp•45m ago•1 comments

Jake the Lawyer Explains ICE and Illegal Immigration [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NosECXHMGFU
1•zahlman•46m ago•0 comments

Estonia Wikipedia being replaced by pro Kremlin narrative by editors

https://twitter.com/ellatravelslove/status/2014280386201727259
3•nailer•56m ago•3 comments

Vimeo starts layoffs after acquisition by Bending Spoons

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/vimeo-starts-layoffs-after-acquisition-by-bending-spoons/
3•absqueued•1h ago•3 comments

The Tighter Weave: On Editing and Not Editing

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/place-and-revolution/articles/the-tighter-weave
1•herbertl•1h ago•0 comments

The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs

https://lithub.com/the-work-behind-the-writing-on-writers-and-their-day-jobs/
1•herbertl•1h ago•0 comments

AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-2026-the-year-of-proving-they-still-know-how-to-operate/
3•mooreds•1h ago•0 comments

A Controversial Video-Game Designer Returns with a New Game and More Controversy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-22/jonathan-blow-a-controversial-video-game-de...
2•DustinEchoes•1h ago•1 comments

Cost-Effectiveness of Language Models for Time Series Anomaly Detection

https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/17/1/72
2•PaulHoule•1h ago•1 comments

Why leaders often disappoint us

https://ariadne.space/2026/01/22/why-leaders-often-disappoint-us.html
3•milkglass•1h ago•0 comments

Computer vision papers reimplemented with minimal PyTorch code

https://github.com/MaximeVandegar/Papers-in-100-Lines-of-Code
2•maxvdg•1h ago•1 comments

Stochastic Mirrors rather than Stochastic Parrots?

1•EdNutting•1h ago•0 comments

I was detained at Davos for my hardware prototype; Swiss police audited the Rust

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/22/2026/an-entrepreneurs-13-hours-in-davos-jail-the-food-was-p...
3•reutinger•1h ago•1 comments

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/ice-arrests-five-year-old-boy-minnesota
38•0x54MUR41•1h ago•13 comments

Seeking Co-Founder for Declarative Application Editor

1•mwhite•1h ago•2 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•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 :)