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Porter Airlines Flight to Toronto cancelled over child standing on seat

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/porter-airlines-flight-to-toronto-cancelled-child-standing...
1•gpi•3m ago•0 comments

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vnny7j5zo
2•alvis•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes

https://github.com/carpdiem/ember
2•carpdiem•10m ago•0 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-...
4•f-serif•11m ago•0 comments

Personal Software Is Getting Cheaper to Build, So I Killed My LinkedIn Feed

https://andrewpollack.dev/blog/fixing-linkedin-customizing-the-web/
3•andrewpollack•11m ago•0 comments

What Michael Levin's Lab Is Teaching Us About How Bodies Build Themselves

https://float64co.github.io/the-body-electric.html
4•LukeB42•14m ago•0 comments

The Cooler – tic-tac-toe where every line is scored as a poker hand

https://gorgekara.itch.io/the-cooler
2•gorgekara•15m ago•0 comments

The Apple II Wasn't the Best Computer of 1977

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=1526
1•01-_-•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anything as Fast as Google's AI Mode in the CLI?

1•dom96•15m ago•0 comments

An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power

https://ai-updates.net/an-openai-strategist-says-ai-labs-should-rival-government-power/
1•ashurandi•18m ago•1 comments

The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNXzQ7V1S_k
3•voxadam•19m ago•0 comments

Super-readable and debuggable shell pipeline command tool, styled like YAML

https://github.com/puutaro/yomel
1•puutaro•20m ago•1 comments

Covid can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02443-2
1•bookofjoe•20m ago•2 comments

Apple Tests Chinese Memory Chips as Supply Squeeze Bites

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-tests-chinese-memory-chips-as-supply-squeeze-bites-d292bb97
1•Brajeshwar•21m ago•0 comments

I started the same side project three times in two years

https://kracik.sk/articles/idea-worth-building-never-shipped
1•pk-dev•27m ago•0 comments

LVMvis: Browse SDSS-V's new interactive map of the Milky Way's ionized gas

https://dr20.sdss.org/lvmvis/
1•MarcoDewey•28m ago•0 comments

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)

https://www.ericsson.com/en/6g/isac
2•elasticdog•28m ago•0 comments

Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/mount-toba-eruption-doesnt-seem-like-it-could-nearly-kill...
1•sbulaev•29m ago•0 comments

Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis (2009) [pdf]

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-PREX3-PURL-gpo587/pdf/GOVPUB-PREX3-PURL-gpo587.pdf
1•30030•31m ago•0 comments

Ancient surveying instruments laid the math for early land grids

https://thehistoricalinsights.page/2026/07/forgotten-surveying-tools-civilization.html
2•peter-grifin•32m ago•0 comments

Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-from-deep-inside-earth-provide-a-new-picture-of-the-mant...
1•ibobev•33m ago•0 comments

The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 3: The Sims

https://www.filfre.net/2026/08/the-life-and-times-of-maxis-part-3-the-sims/
1•ibobev•33m ago•0 comments

Factorio Friday Facts: The Biters Bite Back

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-445
1•ibobev•33m ago•0 comments

LedgerNest – a hosted Quicken alternative for households

https://ledgernest.headsoft.net/
1•mhlavenka•38m ago•0 comments

Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change

https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/08/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change/
56•reallydontask•41m ago•43 comments

Ask HN: Is there a mobile operating system with (wasi) container support?

2•wseqyrku•43m ago•0 comments

UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account

https://unyolo.io/
2•hosolmaz•43m ago•0 comments

Gaza: Children killed in 300 days of Israeli-Hamas 'ceasefire'

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168088
10•kome•47m ago•1 comments

Today We're Launching Abloh

https://abloh.dev/
3•LoloENG•48m ago•0 comments

TSA Sued for Hiding Records on Secret Airport Screening Privatization Program

https://www.afge.org/publication/afge-sues-tsa-for-hiding-records-on-secret-airport-screening-pri...
5•impish9208•49m ago•0 comments
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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 :)