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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 :)

Show HN: VibezCheck (a16) – Give your money a mind, Today

https://www.vibezcheck.xyz/
1•Seeyouin2050•1m ago•0 comments

Agentic Engineering at Zalando: A Snapshot

https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2026/08/agentic-engineering-at-zalando-a-snapshot.html
2•hrpnk•4m ago•0 comments

Depth-aware light injection in TypeGPU

https://twitter.com/reczko_konrad/status/2089670934009413751
1•amrrs•4m ago•0 comments

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/
1•j4mie•4m ago•0 comments

Cua's open-source alternative to Codex Computer History, encrypted locally

https://github.com/trycua/cua/blob/main/libs/cua-driver/docs/computer-history-preview.md
1•frabonacci•4m ago•0 comments

Investors Slam SEC Plan to Remove Best-Price Rule

https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/investors-slam-sec-plan-to-remove-best-price-rule-8f2c1cc3
1•malshe•5m ago•1 comments

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc...
1•NaOH•8m ago•1 comments

Psychopathic Traits of Corporate Leadership as Predictors of Stock Returns(2017)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2984999
1•lenerdenator•9m ago•1 comments

Traditional CVs Are Dead

https://myabout.page/
2•ajonline•11m ago•1 comments

Kakoune Code Editor

https://kakoune.org/
2•olexsmir•12m ago•0 comments

The Shapes of Agent Memory – Files, Stores, and Experience

https://www.pinglin.tw/blog/the-shapes-of-agent-memory/
2•sebg•12m ago•0 comments

A 'Texas Hedge' Amplified the Losses at Situational Awareness

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-risk-amplifying-strategy-that-led-to-big-losses-at-situ...
2•paulpauper•12m ago•0 comments

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec
2•fittingopposite•12m ago•0 comments

Flock CEO Admits Flock Is Used to Stalk People

https://ipvm.com/reports/flock-ceo-stalk
9•jhonovich•14m ago•0 comments

David Chalmers asks: When we talk to AI, what are we talking to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjJOMcNU9w
1•tcp_handshaker•17m ago•0 comments

Miles v0.1: Production-level Post-training

https://www.lmsys.org/blog/2026-08-18-miles-v0-1/
1•nblintao•17m ago•0 comments

Moving to a Lonely Forge

https://jackson.dev/post/moving-to-a-lonely-forge/
2•Arcuru•18m ago•0 comments

3D Model Markets Are Being Flooded with AI Sellers, but No One's Buying

https://kotaku.com/3d-model-markets-are-being-flooded-with-ai-sellers-but-no-ones-buying-2000724790
2•donohoe•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Craton Bolt – A Pure Rust, JIT-Compiled GPU SQL Engine

https://github.com/craton-co/craton-bolt
2•victor-craton•19m ago•0 comments

Enhanced Spell Checking on the Web

https://bkardell.com/blog/EnhancedSpellchecking.html
1•speckx•20m ago•0 comments

Renewable Energy Is Shaping Up to End Decades of Energy Colonialism

https://ryanhansson.substack.com/p/renewable-energy-could-end-decades
2•xbmcuser•20m ago•0 comments

All Change for North Korean Phone Numbers

https://www.nktechlab.org/all-change-for-north-korean-phone-numbers/
1•robin_reala•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Unigram: encode bytes as words that cost one LLM token

https://github.com/bleugreen/unigram
2•bleugreenlab•21m ago•0 comments

Apertura A from-scratch Objective-C++ / MLX rebuild of Gemma-4 for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/apocryphx/Apertura
1•Bluestein•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: What if two devices could chat using only sound?

https://github.com/Nellix/sonic-chat
2•n3ll1x93•23m ago•1 comments

My Personal AGI

https://chadnauseam.com/random/my-personsal-agi
1•ChadNauseam•24m ago•0 comments

Computing Machinery and Intelligence – A. M. Turing (1950) [pdf]

https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf
1•tcp_handshaker•25m ago•0 comments

Flock Cameras Come to Norman, Despite Council Rejection

https://reclaimthenet.org/norman-oklahoma-flock-license-plate-readers-county-sheriff
3•bilsbie•25m ago•0 comments

Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/protein-ate-our-grocery-stores/
3•speckx•25m ago•0 comments

Juan Tamariz dies at 83, magician who turned card magic into popular phenomenon

https://www.democrata.es/en/current-events/juan-tamariz-dies-at-83-the-magician-who-turned-card-m...
1•angelaguilera•27m ago•0 comments