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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 :)

TransformKit

https://transform-kit.com
1•andrevenancio•6m ago•0 comments

Effects of the New $100k Fee and Wage-Weighted Lottery on the H-1B Visa

https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/p/2026-08-03-effects-of-the-new-100000-fee-and-wage-weighte...
2•fzliu•6m ago•0 comments

Hot Set: Shooting Heat

https://theasc.com/article/hot-set-shooting-heat/
1•handfuloflight•10m ago•0 comments

Relative Velocity and Closing Speed

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/relative-velocity-and-closing-speed/
1•mfrw•11m ago•0 comments

TerminalWidget Put Terminal Output on Your Desktop

https://terminalwidget.app/
1•colinprince•13m ago•0 comments

What should go in your Claude.md?

https://zander.wtf/blog/claude-md-agents-md/
2•mrmartineau•15m ago•1 comments

GeoAI: Artificial Intelligence for Geospatial Data

https://opengeoai.org/
1•jonbaer•16m ago•0 comments

Do Context Files Help Coding Agents? A Two-Agent Ablation Study on Real Repos

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27250
1•jamesblonde•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Local semantic code search that saves your agent tokens

https://tryreference.com/
1•RahulThennarasu•23m ago•0 comments

AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany

https://apnews.com/article/germany-bayreuth-wagner-festival-ai-f4300cdc0be195dabdadfa6d2ab4254c
2•rawgabbit•29m ago•0 comments

Headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/how-headlights-got-brighter-whiter-and-more-blinding-after-d...
2•mdp2021•29m ago•0 comments

Why is open source software so badly designed? (2022)

https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/why-is-free-open-source-software-badly-designed
1•doubletwoyou•34m ago•1 comments

Night Java (San Francisco)

https://www.nightjava.com/
1•danielmorozoff•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Paloma – Intelligent Autocomplete for Mac

https://trypaloma.app
1•hydrohelium•38m ago•0 comments

Inside the grey market for online accounts

https://www.ft.com/content/576c1b70-bf51-45d2-a5f0-eca2e9acc256
1•petethomas•39m ago•0 comments

Niche expert AI fine-tuning data set in clean JSON format

https://headwater.gumroad.com/l/jxvjh
1•PunkiePal•39m ago•0 comments

SWE-Touch: Benchmarking Coding Agents When Users Touch the Code

https://trae1oung.github.io/SWE-Touch/
1•in-silico•39m ago•0 comments

Context Compaction Theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01326
1•jadidbourbaki•43m ago•0 comments

The Youth AI Privacy Act's Privacy Paradox

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/youth-ai-privacy-acts-privacy-paradox
1•mdp2021•43m ago•0 comments

Tattoo the Earth, one pixel at a time

https://earth.tattoo/
2•whatsupdog•50m ago•0 comments

Did Iran hack water systems in seven US states?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c934dq95zpgo
1•dabinat•53m ago•0 comments

As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program

https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
1•allenc•54m ago•1 comments

The 11 Types of Washington, DC, Metro Station Architecture (2018)

https://ggwash.org/view/68565/metro-has-11-types-of-station-architecture.-learn-them-all-with-thi...
3•quuxplusone•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Benzi – An AI coding assistant grounded in a live code map

https://benzi.fly.dev/
1•showhz•1h ago•0 comments

Spherical Codes Application in Fiber Optics (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04776
1•silver92bullet•1h ago•0 comments

The AI Boom Is Transforming the American Economy Beyond Recognition

https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-ai-boom-is-transforming-the-american-economy-beyond-recognition-c...
3•mapping365•1h ago•2 comments

At least we're warming the planet for a good reason

https://old.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vev2fl/vibecoded_ios_app_reached_35k_loc_and_i_no_longer/
2•johnnyApplePRNG•1h ago•2 comments

Real-time LuaTeX: Recompiling large documents in 1ms [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1gpjPm-Rns
2•eigenblake•1h ago•0 comments

Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-080226a-lego-icons-hubble-space-telescope-details.html
1•Tomte•1h ago•1 comments

Startup Marketing 101

https://skeptrune.substack.com/p/startup-marketing-101
1•iacguy•1h ago•0 comments