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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 :)

Personetta – One YAML Persona for Cursor, Copilot, Claude, and Cline

https://github.com/EdwardAF-IT/Personetta
1•EdwardAF-IT•6m ago•0 comments

Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/follow-up_thoughts_on_watermarking
1•pinkmuffinere•8m ago•0 comments

Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tiny-satellite-will-use-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-to-eavesdro...
1•NordStreamYacht•8m ago•0 comments

The Economics and Engineering of On-Premises LLMs

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-economics-and-engineering-of-on-premises-llms/
1•pseudolus•8m ago•0 comments

Are there space filling curves for the Hilbert Cube? (2010)

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/34982/are-there-space-filling-curves-for-the-hilbert-cube
1•peter_d_sherman•12m ago•0 comments

Calling Python from Matlab

https://www.mathworks.com/campaigns/offers/calling-python-from-matlab-cheat-sheet.html
1•teleforce•14m ago•0 comments

Fideliya Pass: Loyalty Program and More

https://www.fideliyapass.com/
1•zakox•18m ago•0 comments

New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 [pdf]

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BFI_WP_2026-108-1.pdf
3•jplusequalt•20m ago•2 comments

What's New with Monitoring in PostgreSQL 19

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgres-19-monitoring-whats-new
1•saisrirampur•21m ago•0 comments

Bonds Are Getting Hammered, and Wall Street Says the Rout Won't End Anytime Soon

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/bonds-are-getting-hammered-and-wall-street-says-the-rout-wo...
1•petethomas•23m ago•0 comments

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro
1•dabinat•26m ago•0 comments

The Secret Killer of Startups: Low Ambition [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhRhElbVcI
2•stuartaxelowen•26m ago•0 comments

Trump's Broken Promises, in 11 Charts

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/18/opinion/trump-economy-campaign-promises.html
2•whack•28m ago•0 comments

Rent's Rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent%27s_rule
3•peter_d_sherman•34m ago•0 comments

The quest to find the best Calvin and Hobbes panel

https://www.polygon.com/best-calvin-and-hobbes-panel-ever/
1•thunderbong•35m ago•0 comments

Kithly – a family social network with no ads and no algorithm

https://kithly.social/
1•jkagidesignsllc•45m ago•0 comments

The Defender's Window

https://openai.com/index/the-defenders-window/
1•nedruod•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Search inside podcast episodes and read transcript while listening

https://metapodcast.net
1•lamecoder•45m ago•0 comments

Cerebras CS4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4
4•sunils34•46m ago•0 comments

SecIT Bench A frontier benchmark for AI agents in IT and security workflows

https://secitbench.cribl.io/
1•ram_rar•46m ago•0 comments

Testing Claude-designed proteins in the wet lab

https://www.adaptyvbio.com/blog/anthropic-1
1•julian_englert•49m ago•1 comments

Nutritional benefits of sourdoughs: A systematic review (2022)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2161831322013023
2•BiraIgnacio•49m ago•1 comments

Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html
4•croes•51m ago•1 comments

DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel

https://inco.ai/blog/dflash2/
4•bhavnicksm•54m ago•0 comments

Arizona city sues over fire truck prices

https://www.themesatribune.com/news/mesa-to-sue-over-fire-truck-prices/article_5f8c1543-4f92-4181...
2•ilamont•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Monity.ai – Get notified when any website changes

https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/monity-ai/id6761957823
2•kamilmm21•59m ago•0 comments

This Could End the RAM Crisis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv3wV-QeTok
2•tartoran•59m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/19/openais-overhead-will-rise-20-percent-for-some-w...
5•joebuckwilliams•59m ago•0 comments

Who's in charge? The fraught union of automation and human behavior

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/design-automated-systems-with-human-psycho...
2•knowablemag•59m ago•0 comments

The Deadline Dividend: What Faster Inference Buys

https://deadline-dividend.onrender.com
2•serialwindow•59m ago•0 comments