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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 :)

Transformer Is an EOT Solver

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/your-transformer-is-secretly-an-eot-solver/
1•surprisetalk•46s ago•0 comments

Surgical DevOps – Prevent LLM context drift and regressions

https://github.com/bonushora/surgical-dev-ops/blob/main/README_EN.md
1•melembre•59s ago•0 comments

What Is AI Good At?

https://unstack.io/what-is-ai-good-at
1•ScottWRobinson•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Plato Programming Language

https://github.com/cdiggins/plato
1•d166e8•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VoxThermic – A macOS journaling app that uses Apple's Foundation Models

https://voxthermic.jbri.workers.dev/
1•midnightbobarun•2m ago•0 comments

GetOfflineDeviceUniqueID: How Windows Derives Its Offline Device ID

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1•mschuster91•4m ago•0 comments

4playerchess: I launched a chess game that four people can play (easily)

https://4playerchess.plus
1•emilemoureau•5m ago•1 comments

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

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2•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: I stopped fighting AI over-reliance and built a workflow around it

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Profunctor Optics

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2026/07/19/profunctor-optics/
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Of forks and clones and package management

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1•ibobev•8m ago•0 comments

ASML to offer employees €20k retention bonus for staying in 2027-2030

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1•tartoran•8m ago•0 comments

FDA says Taylor Farms cyclospora finding was a false positive

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1•NelsonMinar•10m ago•0 comments

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https://worldholidays.me
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I Forgot to Get Excited

1•bkaae•11m ago•0 comments

Stagnant Germany Considers the Unthinkable: Sunday Shopping

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1•jacooper•11m ago•0 comments

Help: Using reflection to discovery and invoke methods

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Google Images: 25 years of visual search innovation

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1•gmays•13m ago•0 comments

Standalone webserver written in pure PHP. No more need for nginx, php-fpm, etc.

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1•fl_git•13m ago•0 comments

After five failed products, this founder quit his job and hit $7.5k/mo

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2•jimwilson•14m ago•0 comments

Bits of Advice That, in Murky Light, Might Pass as Wisdom

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/40/
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Police searched Twin Cities Flock cameras during ICE surge

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5•bradleyankrom•16m ago•1 comments

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Venv-manager, a Python venv runtime for Humans and AI agents

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Investigating why RustCrypto is slow: Deep dive into SIMD acceleration

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People are turning themselves into lab rats': peptides craze the US

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4•wslh•20m ago•0 comments

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing

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2•benwerd•21m ago•0 comments

Model 4: Our best model yet for local dictation and cleanup on Mac

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3•oakst•21m ago•0 comments