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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•12mo ago

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kuberwastaken•12mo 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 :)

Kamal-Backup: Scheduled Rails Backups for Kamal Apps

https://paolino.me/kamal-backup/
1•earcar•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rdprrap – Rust Port of RDPWrap (Multi-Session RDP for Windows Desktop)

https://github.com/kernalix7/rdprrap
1•kernalix7•4m ago•0 comments

Discovering Monero

https://theprivacydad.com/discovering-monero/
1•Cider9986•4m ago•0 comments

Savages of the Sun: The Vanished Race of Tampa Bay

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1201&context=sunlandtribune
1•bryanrasmussen•4m ago•0 comments

Eyenima – TrueDepth iris portraits, on-device, no cloud

https://eyenima.totemc.com
1•matteosacco•8m ago•0 comments

Are we the only service to run monorepos?

https://diploi.com/blog/are-we-the-only-service-to-run-monorepos-n5j
1•marlusx•9m ago•0 comments

Performance trick: optimistic vs. pessimistic checks – Daniel Lemire's blog

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/20/performance-trick-optimistic-vs-pessimistic-checks/
1•thunderbong•11m ago•0 comments

ByteDance tests paid subscriptions in China for AI app Doubao

https://technode.com/2026/05/06/bytedance-tests-paid-subscriptions-for-ai-app-doubao-in-push-towa...
1•populer•11m ago•0 comments

GenGEO: A binary trust registry for AI agent transactions

https://github.com/warwickwood-cell/gengeo-agent-registry
1•gengeo-ai•13m ago•0 comments

One of Apple's First Employees Looks Back at 50 Years

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/apple-employee-50-years.html
1•nxobject•15m ago•0 comments

Working Was the Beginning

https://themackabu.dev/blog/ant-part-two
2•theMackabu•20m ago•0 comments

Node.js 26.0.0 (Current)

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.0.0
2•partsch•23m ago•0 comments

What if LLMs are mostly crystallized intelligence?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zxw3ZcmSdndpQyJ6M/what-if-llms-are-mostly-crystallized-intelligence
2•joozio•32m ago•0 comments

AWS lets agents drive virtual desktops which could cost 500k tokens per click

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/06/aws_workspaces_agent_access/
4•beardyw•37m ago•1 comments

PostHog Code

https://posthog.com/code
3•dotmanish•38m ago•0 comments

Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/bitter-lessons-from-the-isspresso
4•kome•40m ago•0 comments

.de domains were 'down' for 2 hours

https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38
3•riedel•41m ago•1 comments

AI is starting to beat doctors at making correct diagnoses

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-starting-beat-doctors-making-correct-diagnoses
5•rxmux•46m ago•0 comments

SensorHub – The event-driven version of Clawhub (giving AI agents "ears")

https://world2agent.ai/hub
4•WayLonWen•48m ago•0 comments

Pensero – I knew I was doing the work. I just couldn't prove it

https://pensero.ai/blog/i-knew-i-was-doing-the-work.-i-just-couldn-t-prove-it.
2•sabatesduran•50m ago•0 comments

New PyXHDL Release (Python Frontend To VHDL And Verilog)

https://github.com/davidel/pyxhdl
2•dadaz•50m ago•0 comments

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI

https://www.popularbydesign.org/p/academics-need-to-wake-up-on-ai
3•barry-cotter•1h ago•1 comments

The reinvention of tradition: charismatic leadership in Silicon Valley

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/1600910X.2026.2666346
2•kome•1h ago•0 comments

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html
4•notsentient•1h ago•0 comments

Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/singapore-caning-school-bullies
6•rustoo•1h ago•0 comments

Bottlenecks and Productivity

https://calnewport.com/on-bottlenecks-and-productivity/
2•tapanjk•1h ago•0 comments

Google DeepMind workers vote to unionize over military AI deals

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-workers-vote-to-unionize-over-military-ai-deals/
6•ascorbic•1h ago•0 comments

RFK Jr. plans to curb antidepressants, which he falsely compares to heroin

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/rfk-jr-plans-to-curb-antidepressants-which-he-falsely-comp...
6•rbanffy•1h ago•1 comments

Complete .de TLD was off-line for 4 hours

https://blog.denic.de/en/denic-reports-dnssec-disruption-affecting-de-domains/
3•teekert•1h ago•2 comments

Reflections on the motive power of heat (1890)

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/78610/pg78610-images.html
1•petethomas•1h ago•0 comments