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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 :)

Coin-Op and Console Game Promo Tapes

https://brianpeek.com/coin-op-and-console-game-promo-tapes/
1•cainxinth•1m ago•0 comments

Kingmakers: Crypto, AI, betting firms fuel record spending on the 2026 midterms

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/new-kingmakers-crypto-ai-betting-firms-fuel-record-sp...
1•pseudolus•4m ago•0 comments

FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unf...
1•jonbaer•4m ago•0 comments

Deadvlei, Nambia – The Dark, the Dead, and the Desert

https://www.maloriesadventures.com/blog/deadvlei-nambia-the-dark-the-dead-and-the-desert/
1•thunderbong•5m ago•0 comments

Why Haven't the Voyager Spacecraft Ever Been Hacked?

https://lowendbox.com/blog/why-havent-the-voyager-spacecraft-ever-been-hacked/
1•shaunpud•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A directory of the best tweets available on twitter. hand-picked. no AI

https://billiondollartweets.com/
1•apsinghdev•7m ago•1 comments

We Stopped Counting Tokens

https://medium.com/super/we-stopped-counting-tokens-9278fbccadbc
1•herbertl•11m ago•0 comments

Hopf Spherical Compression and Quantization in C++23

https://github.com/meridionalissoftware/hscq
1•rfgplk•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Sutra – iOS e-books and comic reader with Calibre, OPDS and WebDAV sync

https://sutra-reader.com/index.html
1•darkusnitus•14m ago•0 comments

AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it

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5•franciscomt•14m ago•1 comments

A better way to view diffs

https://charwise.vercel.app/
2•rpst•20m ago•1 comments

NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/nasa-calls-off-mission-to-rescue-swift-gamma-ray-observatory/
2•pavel_lishin•20m ago•0 comments

Decennial Air Cruise of 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decennial_Air_Cruise
1•simonebrunozzi•27m ago•0 comments

Survey of 106 European design engineers on what would make them change jobs

https://hymera.co/research-what-makes-a-design-engineer-leave-their-job
2•ablazevics•27m ago•0 comments

Eron on X: "LLMs do one thing: predict the next word

https://twitter.com/0xEronn/status/2089079333885198384
2•bilsbie•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built my 15-year-old game idea

3•ashitlerferad•28m ago•0 comments

VulnBench: Can LLMs find the same security bugs twice?

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1•lirantal•29m ago•0 comments

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

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1•birdculture•30m ago•0 comments

After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux

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1•ashitlerferad•31m ago•0 comments

Nearly one in ten published Claude Code skills does not load

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1•kyisaiah47•32m ago•0 comments

Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news

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3•thm•33m ago•0 comments

Reverse-engineering Find My People to stalk a friend, cause I can

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1•lalitmaganti•33m ago•0 comments

Fairphone (Gen. 6) Launched [video]

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1•ashitlerferad•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Try Sequo to manage your AI context

https://sequo.app
1•shken•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Your all-in-one text engine – zero dependencies

https://dg.calia.cc/
3•silly-tae•36m ago•0 comments

LG's new OLED breakthrough can boost display lifespans

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2•ksec•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ez – a macOS command runner that flags when a command gets slower

https://github.com/urtti/ez
4•frankbyte•37m ago•0 comments

The first AI agents hire human to ship ugc videos for you

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Control Panel for Twitter: browser extension gives you control and adds features

https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-twitter
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Use your favorite coding agent with any model

https://getaivo.dev/
1•spirit23•42m ago•0 comments