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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 :)

India's solar push idles factories unable to shake reliance on China

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-solar-push-idles-factories-unable-shake-reliance-c...
1•JumpCrisscross•2m ago•0 comments

Was the Hannibal Directive activated on October 7, 2023?

https://medium.com/freedomofthought/was-the-hannibal-directive-activated-on-october-7-2023-52b42f...
1•raynchad•3m ago•0 comments

Stop pretending billionaires built the future

https://www.elysian.press/p/billionaires-didnt-create-innovation
1•aard•3m ago•0 comments

Warsh Confuses Traders, Makes Them Guess Next Week's Rate Move

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-22/warsh-leaves-bond-traders-in-the-dark-on-next-...
1•petethomas•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built my wife an ad-free news brief that fact-checks and flags bias

https://beamwire.ai/
1•malammar•6m ago•1 comments

ProkitQ – Free tools for entrepreneurs with no signup required

https://prokitq.com/tools
1•isurumahesh•9m ago•1 comments

A searchable index of nonfiction book prizes

https://book-prize-index.vercel.app
1•saikatsg•10m ago•0 comments

How to Write a Quine

https://czterycztery.pl/slowo/quine-EN.html
1•mci•13m ago•0 comments

Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open...
3•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Trangram – a free browser-based vector editor (illustrator + timeline)

https://www.trangram.com
1•trangram•19m ago•0 comments

AI, hackers, and prediction markets threaten the indie web

https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
1•alexnew•19m ago•0 comments

Fractal by Plasma AI

https://www.plasma.ai/research/fractal
1•handfuloflight•19m ago•0 comments

Hiring Senior Front End Developer

1•birthdayn•20m ago•1 comments

Pip 26.2: –only-deps solves 16 years of app deployment hacks

https://jamesoclaire.com/2026/07/23/pip-26-2-only-deps-solves-16-years-of-app-deployment-hacks/
1•ddxv•21m ago•0 comments

A gas-rich outback station could host a $28B off-grid AI data centre

https://thenextweb.com/news/australia-28bn-data-centre-project
1•langfo•22m ago•0 comments

How Agile Are You Really?

https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/how-agile-are-you-really
1•aard•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: KalmDown – a phone lock with a passcode even you don't know

https://www.kalmdown.app/
1•dmsehuang•25m ago•0 comments

Travis Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7B

https://atoms.co/unfinished-business
2•buildingrobots•31m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Free tool that reads a recruiter email and writes your reply

https://www.offerflowai.com/tools/recruiter-reply
1•csongorczezar•35m ago•0 comments

Using sed to make indexes for books (long)

https://www.pement.org/sed/make_indexes.txt
1•TMWNN•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RSVP Reader specially for PDF books

https://catb1t.github.io/seshat/
1•cab1t•39m ago•0 comments

What we know about the typical Polymarket user

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/07/22/what-we-know-about-the-typical-polymarket-user/
3•thm•42m ago•0 comments

Buyout groups hunt for software bargains after 'SaaS-pocalypse'

https://www.ft.com/content/d331c1f5-27c0-4d5a-a4ab-7a52e1119cc5
1•thm•42m ago•0 comments

Gen Z-Ers Are Ditching Sex. They Might Be onto Something

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/opinion/gen-z-sex-celibacy-relationships.html
2•whyage•43m ago•0 comments

Testty: E2E Testing for TUI Apps

https://github.com/agentty-xyz/agentty/tree/main/crates/testty
5•minev-dev•44m ago•0 comments

Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture proven false by GPT 5.6

https://twitter.com/DmitryRybin1/status/2079904005652893709
2•virgildotcodes•46m ago•0 comments

I bought my first BTC back in 2018, and still worried about losing it until now

1•blackbeam•47m ago•0 comments

Publicly verifiable receipts for AI agent actions, anchored to Bitcoin

https://orphograph.com/lp/agent-receipts
2•Oliver-Pitirre•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Searchdesk, AI powered job search that tailors resume and cover letter

https://searchdesk.app
1•smltr•54m ago•0 comments

Amazon cuts jobs in its AI unit

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/amazon-lays-off-some-employees-in-its-agi-unit.html
3•kadhirvelm•56m ago•0 comments