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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 :)

Proving Claude Knows You by Your Code Style: Author2Vec

https://author2vec.com/
2•tristenharr•56s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is this type of writing is compelling, or over rated

3•Daniel-Pan•4m ago•0 comments

Fire and Coast Fire Tracker · Streamlit

2•Rossklot•4m ago•0 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Delivers Third Advanced Reactor Criticality

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2•simonpure•10m ago•0 comments

Moneyball for Physical AI

https://praxiscurrents.substack.com/p/moneyball-for-physical-ai
2•gmays•11m ago•0 comments

OpenUI: Open Standard for Generative UI

https://www.openui.com
2•handfuloflight•14m ago•0 comments

The delicious irony of Anthropic bemoaning distillation

https://twitter.com/ejzim/status/2072692694036660517
2•MrBuddyCasino•20m ago•0 comments

Lotus: Optimized Agentic and LLM Bulk Processing

https://github.com/lotus-data/lotus
2•handfuloflight•28m ago•0 comments

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3•MrBuddyCasino•34m ago•0 comments

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https://www.hope.net/
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Don't Train the Model, Evolve the Harness

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Automated Accounting, Financial Reporting and Tax Management

https://maxint.com/blog/maxint-2-24-release
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Ask HN: Once you make your money from vibe coding innumerable products, then?

2•keepamovin•52m ago•0 comments

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Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?

2•akarshhegde18•52m ago•1 comments

Blue Owl hit by $4.7B of redemption requests as investor exodus persists

https://www.ft.com/content/b302a86d-f6eb-4d47-b90b-523c1c19b3fa
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3•thunderbong•54m ago•1 comments

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3•downbad_•1h ago•0 comments

A few thought about snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)

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Tradeoffs in Complexity, Abstraction, and Generality

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2•parksb•1h ago•0 comments

Google's exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

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3•colinprince•1h ago•2 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXJf7vL8k94
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Thanks but No Thanks

https://twitter.com/xopzuey/status/2072838561275969717
3•znort_•1h ago•2 comments

How Many People Have Ever Lived in the United States?

https://danielfetz.io/p/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-in-the-united-states
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AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6gr0xkyr3o
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