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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 :)

Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1143774/redefining-enterprise-intelligence-with-auton...
1•joozio•1m ago•0 comments

AI is supposed to be deflationary. Here's what the macro data suggests

https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/ai-deflation
1•p-s-v•1m ago•0 comments

Copy on Write queue daemon prevents state bleeding

https://towardsdev.com/macropay-solutions-php-framework-re-engineering-the-queue-worker-daemon-ze...
1•marius-ciclistu•3m ago•0 comments

Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)

https://devforum.play.date/t/dirty-optimization-secrets-c-for-playdate/23011
1•ibobev•3m ago•0 comments

Finding Bugs

https://matklad.github.io/2026/09/19/finding-bugs.html
1•ibobev•4m ago•0 comments

We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/quick-fdb-kafka/
1•ibobev•4m ago•0 comments

The Paris Bridge That Never Was (2014)

https://parisianfields.com/2014/04/20/the-paris-bridge-that-never-was/
1•joebig•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Social SDK, a typed TypeScript toolkit for 7 social platforms

https://github.com/opencoredev/social-sdk
1•leoisadev•4m ago•0 comments

Nexusyn – Long-term memory engine for AI agents (Go, DiskANN, MCP)

https://github.com/nexusyn/engine
1•lrdeoliveira•5m ago•0 comments

Is College Still Worth It? (2025)

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/is-college-still-worth-it/
1•loughnane•6m ago•0 comments

World Bank structures $301M to backstop Ukraine mortgage market [pdf]

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099093026053521701/pdf/P517177-c11fc375-46fd-41cc-9a2...
2•AvityN•8m ago•0 comments

EU's Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials

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1•Sick-Poster•8m ago•0 comments

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1•Rafsark•10m ago•0 comments

Our Future in the Cloud: Can We Prevent Technological Dystopia?

https://btrblocks.com/blog/our_future_in_the_cloud/
1•greghn•11m ago•0 comments

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2•speckx•11m ago•0 comments

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2•catcharisma•13m ago•0 comments

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2•louiereederson•13m ago•0 comments

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1•eustoria•14m ago•0 comments

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1•eustoria•15m ago•0 comments

Aether Summon TCG

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1•hnedeotes•16m ago•1 comments

Code Wordle, find the mistery function

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3•andre15silva•17m ago•0 comments

ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

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16•rbanffy•17m ago•0 comments

Court Rejects Government Effort to Dismiss Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit

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1•hn_acker•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Two Feet a tiny skate simulator in the browser

https://twofeet.v4rgas.com/
1•v4rgas•18m ago•0 comments

Publishing's AI Reckoning

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1•speckx•18m ago•0 comments

Garbage Collection: Generational? Incremental? Both

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1•rbanffy•19m ago•0 comments

VerusCite has its first retraction

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1•apwheele•20m ago•1 comments

STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985)

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2•schoen•23m ago•1 comments

Musk's AI chatbot Grok encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's president

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/musks-ai-chatbot-grok-reportedly-encouraged-trump-to-capture-ve...
7•wyldfire•23m ago•0 comments