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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 :)

Coopiano – physically modelled piano synthesizer

https://github.com/peterc/coopiano
1•hggh•2m ago•0 comments

The Gradient Is a Covariance

https://richardli.xyz/post/gradient-is-covariance/
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

Beijing seeks tighter grip on AI exports amid US rivalry

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1•jacquesm•4m ago•0 comments

RVUtils – browser-only developer tools, nothing is uploaded

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Thirty Years of KDE

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AI-Generated Starling Desktop Environment Rolls Out Its Own Office Suite

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1•j_maffe•6m ago•0 comments

190k Star Systems and a Million Planets: Building GalaxyAtlas with AI Agents

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iOS 27 untethered jailbreak on iPhone 18 Pro

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1•ea016•7m ago•0 comments

Meta may use new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees

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1•pseudolus•7m ago•0 comments

Re: [PATCH] docs: remove Assisted-by references – Linus Torvalds

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whTs09_ozN+e09GU68N1wPP56MUzDjrg9rnKxQUa0A_4Q@mail.gmail.com/
3•lladnar•7m ago•0 comments

I sold all my SP500 yesterday morning

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5•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

Practical software architecture for Python developers notes

https://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2026/10/15/4-software-architecture.html
1•jandeboevrie•9m ago•0 comments

Claude Builds an Internal Customer Service App

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1•idopmstuff•9m ago•0 comments

WebAssembly Lesson 2: Graphics with SDL

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2•andsoitis•10m ago•0 comments

All old `zip` crate versions were just yanked

https://lib.rs/crates/zip/versions
1•f_devd•11m ago•0 comments

Hostile Vehicle Mitigation

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3•Arodex•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Brian2 Atlas, a Rust engine for distributed neural simulation

https://next-brain.ai/brian2-atlas/
2•rocklee•12m ago•0 comments

There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made.

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1•bookofjoe•12m ago•1 comments

Ukraine hits Russian refinery as Starlink satellite services are restored

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1•MilnerRoute•12m ago•0 comments

Everything wrong is caused by over optimization

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1•theahura•14m ago•0 comments

Aura v0.1.0: Deterministic behavioral threat-intelligence for LLM safety

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1•kate8382•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Downcheck, a free "is it down" page for 45 dev tools, no signup

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1•speckx•14m ago•0 comments

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18•karakoram•16m ago•2 comments

Bookmark to quick open HN threads on hn.watch

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1•modinfo•17m ago•0 comments

Dark GPUs

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2•HotGarbage•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ossia Score 3.9.0

https://github.com/ossia/score/releases/tag/v3.9.0
1•jcelerier•18m ago•0 comments

Configuring Emacs Eglot for Python with .dir-locals.el and Python-lsp-server

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2•scoops_•19m ago•0 comments

Reflections on the AI in Math Situation

https://3blue1brown.substack.com/p/theres-never-been-a-better-time-to
1•yawboakye•19m ago•0 comments