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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•11mo ago

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kuberwastaken•11mo 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 :)

Android 15's hidden Linux Terminal is a real Debian VM – and it runs Claude Code

https://github.com/JoJa84/Codefone
2•JoJ84•5m ago•0 comments

Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

https://aphyr.com/data/posts/411/the-future-of-everything-is-lies.pdf
1•hedayet•7m ago•0 comments

Hyperframes – AI Video Creation for Agents

https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes
1•steveharman•8m ago•1 comments

How and Why $150 NJ Transit World Cup Train Tickets Became Reality

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianquillen/2026/04/18/the-perfect-storm-that-led-to-150-nj-transit-w...
2•RestlessMind•9m ago•0 comments

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702
3•nobody9999•11m ago•0 comments

Pie Day 2026

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/17/1136121/pie-day-links/
1•joozio•13m ago•0 comments

New Qingzhou Cargo Spacecraft Testing Proceeding Well in Orbit

https://www.china-in-space.com/p/new-qingzhou-cargo-spacecraft-testing
1•JPLeRouzic•14m ago•0 comments

The Truth About AI Disruption

https://thebahnsengroup.com/dividend-cafe/the-truth-about-ai-disruption-april-17-2026/
1•ninjahawk1•16m ago•0 comments

Compound AI: The architecture for safe, scalable autonomy

https://engineering.gm.com/home.detail.html/Pages/news/us/en/engineering/2026/mar/0319-compound-a...
1•plun9•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Backlit Keyboard API for Python

https://github.com/itsmeadarsh2008/backlit-kbd
1•itsmeadarsh•24m ago•0 comments

The Technological Republic, in Brief

https://twitter.com/palantirtech/status/2045574398573453312
2•phantomathkg•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Make Video from Photo for Free

https://makevideofromphoto.com/
1•pekingzcc•33m ago•0 comments

Beijing humanoid robot half-marathon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwBK8EH5KlY
1•Animats•50m ago•0 comments

The Flipper Zero is now rewriting electronic price tags (The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/912713/the-flipper-zero-is-now-rickrolling-electronic-price-tags-at...
2•hackerfizh•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Yojam – Route links to the right browser/profile, strip trackers first

https://github.com/fluffypony/yojam
2•fluffypony•54m ago•0 comments

We ran 1,000 queries through ChatGPT: 48 domains produced 22.5% of citations

https://growtika.com/blog/chatgpt-citation-economy
2•Growtika•55m ago•0 comments

Book Summary: "Essentialism" by Greg McKeown

https://nielsbohrmann.com/essentialism-book-summary/
1•dsego•56m ago•0 comments

GitHub – Merit-Systems/Echo: The User Pays AI SDK

https://github.com/Merit-Systems/echo
2•fagnerbrack•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fuelgauge – a Claude Code status line that doesn't need Node

https://github.com/adityaarakeri/fuelgauge
2•humblejedi•1h ago•0 comments

Third Place

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
2•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

Meta to cut 8k jobs 10% of workforce in major bloodbath next month

https://nypost.com/2026/04/17/business/meta-to-cut-8000-jobs-in-major-bloodbath-next-month-report/
6•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•1 comments

Prefill-as-a-Service:KVCache of Next-Generation Models Could Go Cross-Datacenter

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15039
2•matt_d•1h ago•0 comments

Ultrafast spectral primes generator (Python code)

https://github.com/model-vpr/ultrafast-spectral-primes
2•vpr-research•1h ago•0 comments

Generative artificial intelligence for computational chemistry

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03118
1•bdg•1h ago•0 comments

Design.md

https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-design-md
2•granto•1h ago•0 comments

Chernobyl's last wedding: The couple who married as a nuclear disaster unfolded

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q92lx8q75o
3•1659447091•1h ago•0 comments

Cheng Li-Wun: From Hunger Strike for Taiwan Independence to Meeting Xi Jinping

https://taiwan.md/en/people/cheng-li-wun/
1•salkahfi•1h ago•0 comments

Breakthrough Prize Announces 2026 Laureates

https://breakthroughprize.org/News/98
1•diwank•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: AgentKey – Access governance for AI agents

https://agentkey.dev
2•cracadumi•1h ago•2 comments

Study suggests some Alzheimer's symptoms may begin outside the brain

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-alzheimer-symptoms-brain.html
2•bookmtn•1h ago•0 comments