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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 :)

PyPy v7.3.22

https://pypy.org/posts/2026/04/pypy-v7322-release.html
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928691/openai-chatgpt-wrongful-death-overdose
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•3m ago•0 comments

The Path Not Taken: Duality in Reasoning about Program Execution

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20917
1•PaulHoule•3m ago•0 comments

The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/may/02/what-happens-when-deaths-outnumber-b...
4•rwmj•3m ago•0 comments

AI Will Make the Academic Article Obsolete

https://www.chronicle.com/article/ai-will-make-the-academic-article-obsolete
1•Hooke•4m ago•0 comments

SpaceX and Google Are in Talks to Launch Data Centers in Orbit

https://www.wsj.com/tech/spacex-google-in-talks-to-explore-data-centers-in-orbit-7b7799e2
1•simonebrunozzi•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CircadianLab – Browser-based radiosity lighting simulator (WebGPU)

https://www.innerscene.com/tools/circadian-lab
1•jclarkcom•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DualDoc – A text editor for the AI age

https://www.dualdoc.xyz
1•jdbiggs•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cutting our credential bulk-import from 17 minutes to 2

https://certscore.org/blog/from-17-min-to-2-min
1•rajatrv•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

1•namanyayg•9m ago•0 comments

Exim 4.99.3 – SMTP Mail Server – Message Transfer Agent (MTA)

https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20260512.145700.55e61dbb.en.html
1•neustradamus•10m ago•0 comments

The Shared Feeling of Being Harvested by the Future

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/us-china-ai-future.html
1•littlexsparkee•10m ago•0 comments

MS SQL Arrow

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/introducing-apache-arrow-support-in-mssql-python/
2•gritspants•12m ago•1 comments

Trump Moves to Open National Parks, Other Federal Lands, to More Hunting

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/11/trump-moves-to-open-national-parks-other-federal-lands-to...
2•Bender•12m ago•0 comments

Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/11/microsoft-researchers-find-ai-models-and-agents-cant...
2•Bender•12m ago•1 comments

Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-to...
7•Bender•13m ago•1 comments

Spotify Is Down

1•circadian•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Atlas- Local-first AI code reviewer for Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor

https://www.atlasengine.dev/
1•avinashpdy•15m ago•0 comments

Natural Language Autoencoders: Inside Claude's Activations

https://philippdubach.com/posts/what-claude-thinks-but-doesnt-say/
3•7777777phil•15m ago•0 comments

Beewolf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beewolf
1•dr_girlfriend•16m ago•0 comments

Linux bitten by second vulnerability in as many weeks

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/linux-bitten-by-second-severe-vulnerability-in-as-many-w...
1•Brajeshwar•16m ago•0 comments

The unspoken cost of bad communication

https://productnow.ai/blogs/silent-tax-of-bad-communication
1•kadhirvelm•17m ago•1 comments

The agent principal-agent problem

https://crawshaw.io/blog/agent-principal-agent
1•brimtown•18m ago•0 comments

Netflix sued by Texas AG for alleged surveillance, addictive features

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/11/netflix-sued-by-texas-ag-for-alleged-surveillance-addict...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•18m ago•1 comments

The 3-people locked in the room – an experimentation

https://medium.com/doctolib/the-3-people-locked-in-the-room-an-experimentation-4c7a9b2d6def
1•rognjen•18m ago•0 comments

Red Button, Blue Button: Teaching humans and AI to Supercooperate

https://softmax.com/blog/red-button-blue-button
2•yatharth•19m ago•2 comments

California Mayor Resigns, Admitting to Being an Agent for China

https://time.com/article/2026/05/12/arcadia-california-mayor-eileen-wang-agent-china/
4•luispa•19m ago•0 comments

How to Achieve Serverless GPUs

https://modal.com/blog/truly-serverless-gpus
5•charles_irl•19m ago•0 comments

Harvard Students Furious over Plan to Crack Down on Grades

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/harvard-grade-inflation-plan-to-limit-a-marks-...
1•helsinkiandrew•19m ago•0 comments

Sam Altman takes the stand to testify in Musk suit: Live updates

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/openai-trial-updates-sam-altman-set-to-testify-in-musk-suit.html
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•19m ago•0 comments