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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 :)

Online reviews risk cyberattacks

https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/online-reviews-risk-cyberattacks/
1•hhs•50s ago•0 comments

Microsoft Admits AI Training in New User Privacy Statment

https://slashdot.org/submission/17350256/microsoft-admits-ai-training-in-new-user-privacy-statment
1•MilnerRoute•1m ago•0 comments

Light-powered soft robots can keep jumping forever

https://news.ncsu.edu/2026/08/soft-robots-jumping-forever/
1•hhs•2m ago•0 comments

Percent on ARC-AGI-3

https://monotykamary.com/posts/100-percent-on-arc-agi-3/
1•freediver•3m ago•0 comments

New Bimodal Design Could Supercharge Nuclear Spacecraft

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bimodal-nuclear-spacecraft
1•rbanffy•3m ago•0 comments

Reconstructing lattice point enumeration using Asian counting rods

https://oborona.zip/post/polygon-partitioning-and-piled-pile-sequences-on-an-equilateral-triangul...
1•gg582•7m ago•0 comments

Critical: Persistent back end data retention after deletion in AI Studio

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/554464766
1•Bitu79•12m ago•0 comments

Translating a prophecy between two constructed languages [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZQnmLQt4oc
1•jlamberts•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Practice where countries are in the world

1•blackbrokkoli•21m ago•0 comments

Fat Tire Brakes Get Wireless Upgrade

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/29/fat-tire-brakes-get-wireless-upgrade/
1•lostlogin•34m ago•0 comments

Xylitol Linked to Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/28/sweetener-xylitol-used-in-chewing-gum-and-jam-lin...
2•m463•36m ago•0 comments

OpenRouter is advertising popular Chinese models as based in Singapore

https://openrouter.ai/providers
2•K3N0B1•40m ago•0 comments

MIT student claims to synthesize dangerous chemical, prompting hazmat response

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mit-chemical-hazmat-building-18/4006077/
2•rbanffy•41m ago•0 comments

Create QR codes for $1/month

https://www.createqrcodes.io
1•mattmerrick•42m ago•0 comments

Renderformer V2 (Full neural rendering)

https://renderformer.github.io/v2/
2•E-Reverance•49m ago•0 comments

Use of 'Reasonable' in Gun Control Advocacy

https://firearmsresearchcenter.org/working_papers/use-of-reasonable-in-gun-control-advocacy/
2•delschlangen•49m ago•0 comments

Mcptestkit

https://pypi.org/project/mcp-testkit/
2•opiniateddev•55m ago•0 comments

Fast Unicode (UTF-8) validation with autovectorization

https://nitely.github.io/2026/08/30/fast-unicode-utf-8-validation.html
1•nitely•1h ago•0 comments

I ran out of AI tokens in one app while holding unused tokens in another

1•nextma•1h ago•2 comments

40k Pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Reported Stolen in California

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/business/pabst-beer-truck-stolen-california.html
2•ChrisArchitect•1h ago•0 comments

Tell HN: STOP making Vibe Slop websites that LAG on my MBP and workstation

2•moomoo11•1h ago•1 comments

Establishing the United States Space Academy – The White House

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/establishing-the-united-states-space-acad...
3•rbanffy•1h ago•1 comments

Dancing Bot (Stepmania)

https://dominickp.github.io/dancing-bot/
2•dominick-cc•1h ago•4 comments

How Wingman is able to be client agnostic

https://docs.wingman.actor/concepts/clients/
1•ChaseRensberger•1h ago•1 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption...
4•shscs911•1h ago•0 comments

You have to beat the models at something

https://www.seangoedecke.com/you-have-to-beat-the-models-at-something/
4•sam_bristow•1h ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as Just a Tool

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool
2•cratermoon•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Hard Mode for LLMs

2•Harlekuin•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Memnest, local-first memory shared by pi, Claude Code and Codex

https://github.com/Blue-B/memnest
1•blue-b•1h ago•0 comments

China's AI Revolution and the Ideology of Xi Jinping

https://kevinrudd.com/media/anu-centre-for-china-in-the-world-annual-lecture-2026
1•verdverm•1h ago•1 comments