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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 :)

Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?

1•cakbeslik•1m ago•0 comments

Friction Is the Feature

https://huntergatherer21c.com/2026/08/12/two-friction-is-the-feature.html
1•nate•2m ago•0 comments

GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

https://dhruv2038.bearblog.dev/github-has-an-availability-problem-is-it-time-to-look-elsewhere/
1•dhruv3006•2m ago•0 comments

Beeswax

https://spellbeeswax.com/
1•bookofjoe•3m ago•0 comments

What's an Orchestrator–and Why Does Software Need One? – O'Reilly

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/whats-an-orchestrator-and-why-does-software-need-one/
1•rbanffy•5m ago•0 comments

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham Messaged White House Chief of Staff Impersonator

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/08/17/british-prime-minister-andy-burnham-messaged-whi...
1•pudgywalsh•6m ago•0 comments

Polar Signals Is Joining Dash0

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2026/08/17/polar-signals-is-joining-dash0
2•nvais•6m ago•0 comments

"smart" forms (for onboarding, wizards, etc.)

https://twitter.com/threepointone/status/2089352886182363269
1•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

EFF Joins Calling on Governor to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-joins-18-civil-rights-organizations-calling-governor-ho...
1•Jimmc414•7m ago•0 comments

Gemini in Waymo

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/07/gemini-in-waymo/
1•kaycebasques•8m ago•0 comments

Trust Without Boundaries: An Architectural Analysis of Satellite Flight Software

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14532
1•Jimmc414•9m ago•0 comments

System-Level Performance Impact of Read Disturbance in Modern SSDs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14073
2•Jimmc414•10m ago•0 comments

The Size of the World Wide Web

https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
1•1970-01-01•11m ago•0 comments

AI Native, Without the Badge

https://x.com/compose/articles/edit/2089227511054155776
1•arkwor•11m ago•0 comments

AI text watermarking is not a big deal

https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-text-watermarking-is-not-a-big-deal/
1•baxtr•12m ago•0 comments

A Millennial Furniture Designer Is Behind the Drones Battering Russia

https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-fire-point-ceo-iryna-terekh-drones-d93ec97b
2•doener•15m ago•0 comments

Has AI started improving itself? RSI depeneds on what "itself" means

https://viborc.com/what-recursive-self-improvement-actually-means/
1•viborcip•16m ago•0 comments

Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms

https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/amazons-new-user-agreement-seeks-to-curb-class-action-s...
2•smurda•17m ago•0 comments

Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car

https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/think-flock-is-bad-this-new-tech-is-coming-to-link-license...
2•ck2•17m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How can we care more about fewer things?

2•robalni•19m ago•1 comments

I Let My Students Watch Me Struggle with a Masterpiece. It Changed Everything

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opinion/higher-ed-dostoevsky-attention.html
2•sonabinu•20m ago•1 comments

On The Origin of Continents

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/on-the-origin-of-continents/
1•karakoram•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: If you're burning tokens at scale, what are you using them for?

2•simonw•21m ago•2 comments

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/
3•qingcharles•22m ago•0 comments

Session Visualization with Obsidian

https://jimmyislive.dev/posts/session-visualization/
2•jimmyislive•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Making every company programmable like a computer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCXmYEV9OIQ&list=PLdf47QnV4_58
2•Marten42•23m ago•0 comments

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/17/1140622/weather-data-sabotage/
3•jonbaer•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Classifier and browser extension to detect rule violating HN comments

https://classify.stylometry.net/
3•costco•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenWebSearch – A router for web search indexes

https://openwebsearch.ai
2•yoeven•30m ago•2 comments

Trivially bypass text watermarks by requesting a Base64 response

1•hanneshdc•32m ago•0 comments