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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•8mo ago

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kuberwastaken•8mo 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 :)

EU and India clinch major trade deal in rebuff to Trump – Luxembourg Times

https://www.luxtimes.lu/europeanunion/eu-and-india-clinch-major-trade-deal-in-rebuff-to-trump/126...
1•helsinkiandrew•46s ago•0 comments

Startup Incubator Y Combinator Cuts Canada from Countries Where It Will Invest

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/startup-incubator-y-combinator-cuts-canada-fro...
1•thrusong•48s ago•0 comments

Spider monkeys pool their knowledge to find the best fruit

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-spider-monkeys-pool-knowledge-fruit.html
1•pseudolus•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MinimalistNotes – Offline-first notes app, no account, free forever

https://minimalistnotes.com
1•pghqdev•10m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II

4•abkt•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compressor – native Android video compression using Media3

1•JoshAtticus•12m ago•0 comments

From world police to local fortress

https://eurodivergent.bearblog.dev/from-wold-police-to-local-fortress/
2•Dansvidania•14m ago•0 comments

Resend is boring. It's also one of the most exciting products in tech

https://kimmoihanus.com/posts/007-resend-is-boring-also-most-exciting-product-in-tech
2•ihmissuti•14m ago•0 comments

AI Generated Tests as Ceremony

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/01/26/ai-generated-tests-as-ceremony/
2•birdculture•16m ago•0 comments

Archyl – The modern platform for C4 model documentation

https://www.archyl.com/
1•eko•16m ago•1 comments

Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack, other tools

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/anthropic-launches-interactive-claude-apps-including-slack-and-...
2•pseudolus•17m ago•0 comments

Rebuilding Europe's Sovereignty (Brux Conference)

https://bruxconference2026.com/
2•aiz0Houp•18m ago•0 comments

Why altcoin season may not happen in 2026 as Bitcoin keeps control

https://thebitgazette.com/why-altcoin-season-may-not-happen-in-2026-as-bitcoin-keeps-control/
1•CapricornQueen•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do teams maintain understanding of large, long-lived codebases?

1•Parbhat-Kapila•19m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek Engram hits 97% on NIAH using DRAM instead of HBM

https://www.techaffiliate.in/blog/deepseek-engram-ai-memory-breakthrough-explained-2026
1•Aditya_kachhawa•20m ago•0 comments

'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software $10/hour

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ralph_wiggum_claude_loops/
3•pseudolus•21m ago•1 comments

Standard.site – One schema. Every platform

https://standard.site/
1•mefengl•22m ago•0 comments

For the Love of Troff [pdf]

http://www.schemamania.org/troff/for-the-love-of-troff.pdf
1•signa11•24m ago•0 comments

Zszrun Trading Red Flags: When Slippage and Spikes Don't Look Market-Driven

2•Kangaroo_•26m ago•0 comments

I made my own Git

https://tonystr.net/blog/git_immitation
3•TonyStr•29m ago•0 comments

Add custom tools to Claude Code with YAML (no MCP required)

https://github.com/hexcreator/claude-code-extensions
1•xxayh•29m ago•0 comments

Should you restart or cold boot a Mac?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/27/should-you-restart-or-cold-boot/
2•chmaynard•30m ago•0 comments

Technology in 1776

https://www.a16z.news/p/technology-in-1776
2•7777777phil•31m ago•0 comments

Anthropic raised trademark concerns, so Clawdbot ended up renaming

2•necatiozmen•33m ago•3 comments

As Tech Chiefs Woo Trump, Silicon Valley Seethes over Minneapolis Shootings

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/technology/ice-minnesota-protests-tech.html
1•m-hodges•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Actionbase – A database for likes, views, follows at 1M+ req/min

https://github.com/kakao/actionbase
2•em3s•36m ago•1 comments

Subconscious Could Be in Tune with the Solar System

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70114132/moon-affects-humans-minds/
1•keepamovin•36m ago•0 comments

Autonomous Aquatic Robot Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt

https://www.wired.com/story/autonomous-aquatic-robot-smaller-than-a-grain-of-salt/
2•ColinWright•37m ago•0 comments

Clawdbot forced to rename by Anthropic – GitHub broke, X handle stolen by bots

https://twitter.com/steipete/status/2016068265391354181
1•joozio•39m ago•1 comments

Sam Altman said OpenAI planning to 'dramatically slow down' its pace of hiring

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-said-openai-plan-dramatically-slow-down-hiring-ai-2026-1
2•tanganik•40m ago•1 comments