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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 :)

Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/scanning-7-6-petabytes-of-ai-training-data-for-secrets
1•882542F3884314B•2m ago•0 comments

To Find Happiness, I Stopped Talking. It Helped

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/opinion/happiness-silent-retreat.html
1•saikatsg•2m ago•0 comments

Random thoughts while gazing at the misty AI Frontier

https://blog.eladgil.com/p/random-thoughts-while-gazing-at-the
1•FinnKuhn•2m ago•0 comments

Why Fortran Is Still Used

https://www.matecdev.com/posts/why-fortran-still-used.html
1•leephillips•3m ago•0 comments

Supabase Evals: Benchmark for testing how well AI agents build using Supabase

https://supabase.com/blog/introducing-supabase-evals
1•maxloh•4m ago•0 comments

The Data Center Water Crisis Nobody's Talking About

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=1476
1•01-_-•5m ago•1 comments

Lack of FISA reform lets federal govt surveil 'entire communities' with AI

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1e430e4c-82e5-48f7-aed1-681998d2cb02.html
1•01-_-•6m ago•0 comments

Why 95%+ of Startups Get the Forward Deployed Engineer Role Wrong

https://www.flybridge.com/ideas/the-bow/why-95-of-startups-get-the-forward-deployed-engineer-role...
2•nlpnerd•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SteerPlane – Deterministic runtime guardrails for AI agents

https://github.com/vijaym2k6/SteerPlane
1•vijaym2k6•15m ago•0 comments

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds
2•pudgywalsh•17m ago•0 comments

Can a computer run [solely] on [unbacked] VRAM? (2016)

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/4ooxyg/can_a_computer_run_on_vram/
1•peter_d_sherman•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Should organizations be allowed to have all types of personl data(X.com)

1•dfps•20m ago•0 comments

Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

https://www.barchart.com/story/news/3584357/reddit-stock-collapses-23-as-ai-eats-away-at-user-growth
5•thm•21m ago•1 comments

I Built Ziggers: A Marketplace to Hire Verified Gig Workers in Minutes

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-built-ziggers-a-marketplace-to-hire-verified-gig-workers-in-m...
1•Subanesh•22m ago•0 comments

NetBSD 11.0 Released

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released
2•jaypatelani•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MakerStack: a pay-once maker page (SSR, OG images, custom domains)

https://makerstack.altuzar.dev/
1•altuzar•32m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Zero Fertility Desire in China

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8921502/v1
2•toomuchtodo•34m ago•2 comments

An honesty-first pipeline for AI-transcribing a small letter archive

https://aboxofletters.com/
1•tangentdesignco•35m ago•0 comments

Sovereign and European AI where your Data Stays under European law

https://melious.ai/
1•marcfrommelious•36m ago•0 comments

Freelance front end and GenAI dev, open for client work

http://upwork.com/freelancers/surajg3
1•gsuraj•37m ago•0 comments

BorrowSanitizer Status Update – July 2026

https://borrowsanitizer.com/status/july_2026.html
1•arto•37m ago•0 comments

2026 Europhysics Prize honors discovery of third fundamental class of magnetism

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1137502
4•bookofjoe•41m ago•0 comments

Why Casper forked Rust's rand crate

https://casualhacks.net/blog/2026-07-27-why-i-forked-rand.html
3•fanf2•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free AI Prompt Gen – A local-first, open-source prompt engineering tool

https://freeaipromptgen.com/
2•linuxterminal•43m ago•0 comments

Visa to Cut 7% of Workforce

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/visa-to-cut-7-of-workforce-as-ceo-seeks-to-rev...
4•tosh•46m ago•0 comments

An Odd Kind of Sympathy

https://willthefirst.github.io/synchronizing-metronomes/
1•willthefirst•46m ago•0 comments

Nimdai: Renowned British Gurkha climber and Netflix star confirmed dead

https://news.sky.com/story/nirmal-purja-former-british-special-forces-soldier-dead-after-avalanch...
1•frogfish•46m ago•0 comments

HTML Day 2026 Shanghai

https://rect.repair/html-2026/
1•adrianhon•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AllMCPs – Directory of MCP Servers

https://allmcps.com
1•ghosts_•54m ago•0 comments

U.S. lawmakers request information from DoorDash on use of Chinese AI models

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/us-lawmakers-doordash-chinese-ai-models.html
1•tito•55m ago•0 comments