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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•6mo ago

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kuberwastaken•6mo 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 :)

Volitional Response Protocol – What happens when LLMs can decline to engage [pdf]

https://github.com/templetwo/Relational-Coherence-Training-RTC/blob/master/RCT_Paper_FINAL.pdf
1•TempleOfTwo•2m ago•1 comments

US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee

https://apnews.com/article/real-id-fee-airport-security-travel-tsa-fe8c7ed55cf3dacafa10d50cc2112eb7
3•geox•2m ago•0 comments

Around The World, Part 27: Planting trees

https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2025/11/28/around-the-world-27-planting-trees/
2•ibobev•3m ago•0 comments

Wine 10.20

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.20
1•doener•5m ago•0 comments

Lessons from the Frontiers of AI Adoption

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/12/01/lessons-from-the-frontiers-of-ai-adoption
1•andsoitis•6m ago•0 comments

Zig type hackery and memory management

https://joel.id/zig-type-hacker-and-memory-management/
1•andsoitis•7m ago•0 comments

Arcee Trinity Mini: US-Trained Moe Model

https://www.arcee.ai/blog/the-trinity-manifesto?src=hn
1•hurrycane•8m ago•0 comments

Found: The Oldest Sewing Needle

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-the-worlds-oldest-sewing-needle
1•thunderbong•8m ago•0 comments

GPU deals are drying up fast, but these are the best ones you can still get

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/gpu-deals-are-drying-up-fast-but-these-are-the-be...
1•doener•8m ago•0 comments

FreeBSD 15.0 is now available

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2025-December/000213.html
3•cperciva•9m ago•0 comments

Your Phone Isn't a Drug. It's a Portal to the Otherworld.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opinion/internet-phones-social-media-addiction.html
1•bookofjoe•10m ago•1 comments

Former JAGs say Hegseth, others may have committed war crimes

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/12/01/former-jags-say-hegseth-others-may-ha...
2•petethomas•12m ago•0 comments

Meta's Instagram orders employees back to the office 5 days a week

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/meta-instagram-rto-return-to-office.html
3•kamaraju•12m ago•0 comments

Hedge Your Bet on AGI: Why a Hybrid Path to AI Vibe Coding Just Makes More Sense

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1•adamgins•13m ago•0 comments

Strategies of Populism and Illiberalism in European Campaigning on Facebook

https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/10718
1•PaulHoule•13m ago•0 comments

Amazon's Atrocious AI Anime Dubs Are a Dark Sign of Things to Come

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-anime-ai-dub-banana-fish-no-game-no-life-2000693962
2•layer8•14m ago•0 comments

Artisanal coding is dead, long live artisanal coding

https://joel.id/artisanal-coding-is-dead-long-live-artisanal-coding/
3•mooreds•14m ago•1 comments

The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined

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3•JumpCrisscross•14m ago•0 comments

Fixing the Reactos Test Suite

https://reactos.org/blogs/cbialorucki-tests-2/
2•doener•16m ago•1 comments

Gmail app stopped working with EAS

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/461996029
1•gtech1•16m ago•1 comments

Radia Perlman (Mother of Internet) and Inventor of Spanning Tree Protocol

https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/radia-perlman
1•vkdelta•17m ago•0 comments

Anduril Fails a Lot

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/anduril-industries-defense-tech-problems-52b90cae
2•howdyhowdy123•20m ago•0 comments

Lux – the world best computer use model and developer toolkit

https://agiopen.org/
1•salkahfi•20m ago•0 comments

NerdSearch: A Search Engine for Gamers and Game Devs (Powered by Cheat Codes)

https://search.404nerds.com
1•AjaxTheCoder•23m ago•1 comments

InfraSketch: AI powered system design tool

https://infrasketch.net
1•MatthewFrank•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built a LinkedIn highlighter to screen candidates 5x faster

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/skimit-linkedin-recruiter/ipaajbgmiinahmfbmmjpikmfjkccpocj
1•ngninja•27m ago•0 comments

We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers

https://theconversation.com/we-built-a-database-of-290-000-english-medieval-soldiers-heres-what-i...
1•zeristor•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PVAC FHE over hypergraphs with LPN security

https://github.com/octra-labs/pvac_hfhe_cpp
1•0x0ffh_local•35m ago•0 comments

The GBible – backup your files properly to Google Drive and/or S3

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11_mCt1XWlTlXzhs-zo1yU6sAGcKTXOAdWO5IzRiD_KE/edit?tab=t.0
3•cjv•37m ago•0 comments

MicroVault: A simple distributed blob store in ~1000 lines

1•afpereira•40m ago•0 comments