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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 :)

Agents Make Rebase a No-Brainer

https://home.expurple.me/posts/agents-make-rebase-a-no-brainer/
1•Expurple•1m ago•0 comments

Goodbye Sourcehut

https://timharek.no/blog/goodbye-sourcehut/
2•twapi•5m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's apparent maths breakthrough raises profound questions

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/09/openais-apparent-maths-breakthrough-r...
1•ijidak•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Project Management for the Rest of Us

https://actual-plan.com/
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Virtualized Conversations (Vcon)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/vcon/documents/
2•mindcrime•7m ago•0 comments

Schools Get 5M Complaints yet Almost No Teachers Trained to Handle Them

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1•replyresearch•7m ago•0 comments

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https://cantonpay.online
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Data Access Patterns That Makes Your CPU Angry

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There is no 10x RBAC

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1•FinnLobsien•9m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/jystervinou/vibe2phone
1•jystervinou•9m ago•1 comments

Apple raises prices of last years iPhones

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1•qprofyeh•10m ago•0 comments

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Staggering amounts of valuable metals are ending up in the trash

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1•behnamoh•11m ago•0 comments

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

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3•SegfaultSeagull•12m ago•0 comments

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3•hermitcrab•14m ago•0 comments

Apple Doesn't Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening Features

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2•discostrings•16m ago•1 comments

I promise this Ollama replacement will give you the fastest t/s you've ever had

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2•wowitsbase•16m ago•2 comments

Open-source agentic terminal with a PTY daemon and browser access

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1•hydraterms•16m ago•0 comments

Testing Race Conditions

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1•alpaylan•17m ago•0 comments

Secret DHS Unit Pulling People over Based on Their Financial Data

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7•devonnull•17m ago•0 comments

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2•carli2•20m ago•0 comments

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3•doener•23m ago•0 comments

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2•like_any_other•25m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Does Gusto drop dependents randomly for anyone else?

1•QuadmasterXLII•27m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEHHTh5OTnQ
2•neom•30m ago•0 comments

The U.S. just had its hottest summer on record

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I am obsessed with two ads

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1•skyberrys•34m ago•0 comments

How the Heck Do QR Codes Work?

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1•hermitcrab•35m ago•0 comments

Student's new car gets erroneously flagged by Flock twice in 2 days

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3•jimt1234•37m ago•2 comments

BasinRAG – Topological RAG via dynamical basins (0.771 nDCG 10, $0 API cost, CPU

https://github.com/Basinfy/BasinRAG
1•alexmart1ns•37m ago•0 comments