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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•4mo ago

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kuberwastaken•4mo 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 :)

Hugging Face Releases FinePDFs: A 3T-Token Dataset Built from PDFs

https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/09/finepdfs/
1•maxloh•7s ago•0 comments

Show HN: A tool to make a bootable USB installer out of macOS, or download it

https://macdaddy.io/install-disk-creator/
1•feelix•36s ago•0 comments

Norway's 8.5k ft underground pipeline first to store CO2 directly from factories

https://evidencenetwork.ca/norway-is-set-to-strike-it-rich-with-this-pipeline-8500-feet-undergrou...
1•bookofjoe•4m ago•0 comments

Linux for Nintendo 64 (1997)

https://web.archive.org/web/19990220141243/http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/1997/04/036/
1•flykespice•7m ago•0 comments

Marathon experiment offers most precise measurement of nucleon structure yet

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-marathon-precise-nucleon.html
1•PaulHoule•8m ago•0 comments

Aura – Detecting Fake Cell Towers with RF Fingerprinting AI

1•sadpig70•9m ago•0 comments

What's caused reading scores to drop to worst point in decades?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/whats-caused-reading-scores-to-drop-to-worst-point-in-decades-e...
2•geox•11m ago•0 comments

How to Install the Official Atlassian MCP Server for Claude Code

https://blog.johnys.io/how-to-install-the-official-atlassian-mcp-server-for-claude-code-bitbucket...
1•johnys•12m ago•0 comments

Linux phones are more important now than ever

https://feddit.org/post/18353777
3•wicket•15m ago•0 comments

Windows 11 on a 2005 Sun Ultra Opteron PC [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyC0y7Ahfg
2•sys_64738•16m ago•0 comments

A Closer Look Inside a Robot's Typewriter-Inspired Mouth

https://hackaday.com/2025/09/15/a-closer-look-inside-a-robots-typewriter-inspired-mouth/
1•warrenm•21m ago•0 comments

The Awe Keeps Dropping

https://morrick.me/archives/10137
9•mgrayson•27m ago•2 comments

The Sagrada Família Takes Its Final Shape

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/22/is-the-sagrada-familia-a-masterpiece-or-kitsch
2•pseudolus•27m ago•1 comments

TCG Automate – Scan and Identify Your Trading Cards and List to eBay in Seconds

https://www.tcgautomate.com
1•asassine•29m ago•0 comments

Helping Doug

https://theamericanscholar.org/helping-doug/
2•gmays•38m ago•0 comments

Switchborn – 007 – The Endgame You Forgot [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1OldPGF2mI
1•marcusfrex•40m ago•1 comments

The builder who photographed distant galaxies

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkj08kmd67o
1•1659447091•43m ago•0 comments

Visualizing Algorithms (2014)

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/
2•shminge•48m ago•0 comments

Lobbying and Regulatory Strategies of US Autonomous Vehicles Companies

https://cardog.app/blog/autonomous-vehicle-lobbying
1•samsullivan•58m ago•0 comments

Namibia's Caprivi Strip Exists Because the Germans Forgot Victoria Falls

https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2013-03-04/caprivi-strip-namibia-zimbabwe-maphead-ken-jennings
2•nothrowaways•59m ago•0 comments

Thank HN: Rainbows End

5•cl42•59m ago•1 comments

Treat the AI like it's yourself

https://ryanglover.net/blog/treat-the-ai-like-it-s-yourself
1•rglover•1h ago•0 comments

Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/ransomware_recovery_codes_plaintext/
2•Bender•1h ago•1 comments

After years of strife, AFRINIC has elected a board. Now the hard work begins

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/afrinic_election_called_what_next/
2•Bender•1h ago•0 comments

Free Online Traceroute Tool

https://tracerouteai.com
1•wantering•1h ago•0 comments

Most Work Is Translation

https://aparnacd.substack.com/p/most-work-is-translation
2•jger15•1h ago•0 comments

Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1036916/2b10f1356b7ab0e7/
7•chmaynard•1h ago•1 comments

PlugAndData – plug‑and‑play data pipeline with automatic interface generation

https://pluganddata.com/
1•DanielPlugnData•1h ago•1 comments

Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub

https://github.blog/engineering/platform-security/post-quantum-security-for-ssh-access-on-github/
3•fcambus•1h ago•0 comments

A smart AI personal executive assistant

https://www.pulse-ai.world/
2•xisen•1h ago•2 comments