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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 :)

Jev was built for agents, here's how we're using it in computer use instead

https://twitter.com/kylejeong/status/2102108924677927169
1•Kylejeong21•5s ago•0 comments

Human homeostasis is more efficient in social proximity

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeg4937
1•anigbrowl•29s ago•0 comments

Browser Bookmarks, Done Right: Stop Building a Cemetery of Links

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kosh-bookmark-manager/meldjdfnfgefeoegccphimkmgmeamcce
1•havu12•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pbi-guard – Unit testing for Power BI

https://github.com/Patens-dev/pbi-guard
1•randomlyGenerat•2m ago•0 comments

Teaching a World Model to Play Pokemon

https://nostalgia.dev/posts/teaching-a-world-model-to-play-pokemon/
1•stmonty•3m ago•0 comments

North Korea 'Likely' Behind $388M Hack of Crypto Exchange Bitget

https://gizmodo.com/north-korea-very-likely-behind-388-million-hack-of-crypto-exchange-bitget-200...
2•MC995•8m ago•0 comments

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelblog/excel-now-supports-multiple-values-in-a-single...
2•luispa•11m ago•0 comments

Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia

https://blog.priyan.in/2026/09/analyzing-frontier-model-progress-with.html
2•msephton•12m ago•0 comments

Learning the Bitter Lesson of Agent Harnesses [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smBOBYZ3-5w
1•tuanlda•17m ago•1 comments

What one vLLM replica on an L40 can carry and how it fails

https://percentes.ai/writing/2026/calibrating-one-l40-configuration/
1•itsveems•17m ago•0 comments

The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/stupid-gnome-developers/
1•Muhammad523•17m ago•0 comments

Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/true-blue-rose-pigment-copigment
2•bookofjoe•21m ago•0 comments

Using Claude Code: Spending your effort

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2103576349499855160
1•mfiguiere•21m ago•0 comments

Cringe and Corny

https://ambrook.com/offrange/culture/on-cringe-and-corny
1•surprisetalk•23m ago•0 comments

Yegge's Paradox

https://willbeddow.substack.com/p/yegges-paradox
1•willbeddow•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Piloxa – an MCP server that sends USPS Certified Mail from your AI

https://piloxa.com/for-ai-agents
1•kameir•28m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma

1•vdfs•28m ago•0 comments

Too AI; Didn't Read

https://www.tai-dr.com/
4•rfonseca•28m ago•1 comments

The Scarcity Premium: AI made images free; advertising as a solvency bond

https://scarcity.danieldeboulay.com
2•freedmans•30m ago•0 comments

Asteroids named after Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic

https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/09/24/009238/asteroids-named-after-tom-lehrer-and-weird-al-...
3•MilnerRoute•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I read ISO 273 off the standard because the online charts disagree

https://supra.silviaai.dev/reference/iso-273-clearance-holes
1•Seeper•33m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's Claims over Its "Supply Chain Risk" Exclusion by Dow Rejected

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/09/25/anthropics-first-amendment-claim-against-department-of-war-r...
2•theptip•33m ago•2 comments

Show HN: A free resume builder where the AI can rewrite but can't invent

https://nokku.payanai.com/resume-builder
1•payanai•34m ago•0 comments

More than a taken branch per cycle?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/21/more-than-a-taken-branch-per-cycle/
1•surprisetalk•35m ago•0 comments

Of 1,364 four-year colleges, 17 admit fewer than 1 in 10 applicants

https://m.regrok.info/college-admission.html
2•vipin211•37m ago•0 comments

One Shotted

https://www.quarter--mile.com/One-Shotted
1•surprisetalk•38m ago•0 comments

Container Registry on the Edge

https://ewpratten.com/blog/zot-edge/
1•ewpratten•39m ago•0 comments

AI starter pack for the X-curious

https://xstarterpack.com/
1•rmason•39m ago•0 comments

AI will grow beyond our control, we must instill good values before it does

https://blog.kradle.ai/p/ai-will-grow-beyond-our-control-we
2•jamest•45m ago•0 comments

Making `wc` 20x faster with parallel state machines

https://aarol.dev/posts/wc-dfa/
2•ibobev•45m ago•0 comments