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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 :)

BetterSSC is a Discord-style client for Substack Chat

https://github.com/inder/betterssc
1•inderrr•35s ago•1 comments

The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python

https://ranpara.net/posts/perceptron-explained-from-scratch/
1•DevarshRanpara•1m ago•0 comments

Eighteen

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2026/06/07/eighteen/
1•darekkay•4m ago•0 comments

A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/melastmohican/rust-rpico2-embassy-examples
1•melastmohican•12m ago•0 comments

Guardrails around powerful AI models may be too late

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/07/frontier-ai-cybersecurity-china-race-00952786
1•jonbaer•17m ago•0 comments

Brain Appropriation

https://brainappropriation.org/
1•jonbaer•18m ago•0 comments

The AI Coding Bill Is a Headcount Problem in Disguise

https://abhishek-shankar.com/posts/ai-coding-bill-headcount-problem
1•catstyler•24m ago•0 comments

The Tao of Fish Swimming ▸ KITP Chalk Talk by Jimmy Liao [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZyMhlYmmVQ
1•marysminefnuf•25m ago•0 comments

AI Code Stitcher

https://github.com/ue-patcher/code_stitcher/releases
1•code_stitcher•29m ago•0 comments

How the "Perfectionism Pandemic" Is Crushing Young People

https://nautil.us/how-the-perfectionism-pandemic-is-crushing-young-people-1281569
3•ferryth•30m ago•0 comments

I built an AI agent that monitors job boards daily and emails you scored matches

https://www.matchmind.site
1•sinophine•31m ago•0 comments

Mysterious Next-Gen Aircraft Allegedly Spotted Near Area 51

https://theaviationist.com/2026/06/04/mysterious-next-gen-aircraft-allegedly-spotted-near-area-51/
4•billybuckwheat•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An mkv player that uses WASM to render you videos

https://parallax.kinosoft.moe/
1•kafkaesqueKino•32m ago•0 comments

GoodQ4All – A Local-First Multimodal Memory and Intelligence System

https://github.com/GoodQ02/goodq4all
1•joesdomingo•32m ago•0 comments

For the Nation's Birthday, Making It Harder to Become an American

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/for-the-nations-birthday-making-it-harder-to-become...
1•petethomas•39m ago•0 comments

Engineered biological neural networks as basic logic operators

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.23.630065v2
2•jonnonz•42m ago•0 comments

Pugilistic Florida billionaire plots law firm stake sale to private equity

https://www.ft.com/content/ac309e7b-b5eb-43d4-a668-d9090b2bceaa
1•petethomas•45m ago•0 comments

World Railway Map [pdf]

https://zhaoxusui.github.io/Earth_Transit.pdf
4•cainxinth•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built free VoiceToText app with local LLM polish to save 60 min/day

https://vox.rizenhq.com/
1•serhiiklymenko•51m ago•0 comments

Waymo getaway a likely S.F. first

https://eedition.sfchronicle.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=c9428237-c353-4f22-a196...
3•tmp10423288442•58m ago•2 comments

NYU's 'Dean of Valuation': Elon Musk's SpaceX Isn't Worth $1.77T

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-take-on-the-week/nyus-dean-of-valuation-elon-musks-spacex-is...
3•doener•59m ago•2 comments

The Man Who Buried His Teacher

https://kitchencloset.com/realstuff/essays/the_man_who_buried_his_teacher/
1•bcRIPster•1h ago•1 comments

The Lump of Law Fallacy

https://artificialauthority.ai/p/the-lump-of-law-fallacy
1•paulpauper•1h ago•0 comments

US troops, families adjust to new normal of Iran war

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-troops-families-adjust-to-new-normal-iran-w...
8•petethomas•1h ago•0 comments

A for Effort: How AI Upends Copyright Law

https://srajagopalan.substack.com/p/a-for-effort-how-ai-upends-copyright
2•paulpauper•1h ago•0 comments

The Last of the D-Day Veterans

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/06/dday-survivor-world-war-ii-history/687392/
5•paulpauper•1h ago•0 comments

TaskbarQuota – Real-time AI quota tracker in the Windows taskbar

https://github.com/zioder/TaskbarQuota
1•zioder•1h ago•0 comments

Chaotic fluctuations mark mental activity in task-based heart rate variability

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-43385-z
1•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

White House considers buying Chagos Islands

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/06/07/white-house-plan-chagos-islands/
5•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•1 comments

Consensus Time

https://xkcd.com/2594/
2•Velocifyer•1h ago•1 comments