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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 :)

Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache

https://github.com/kividbio/kividb
1•murtazayusuf•2m ago•0 comments

Why Is Speculative Decoding Fast?

https://jbarrow.ai/2026-10-08-why-is-speculative-decoding-fast/
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

Canonical's Multipass 1.17 Adds Direct Support for Non-Ubuntu Linux Distros

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Multipass-1.17
1•mikece•3m ago•0 comments

Dr Garry Hunt talks to us about the astonishing Voyager probes

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/19/dr-garry-hunt-talks-to-us-about-the-astonishing-vo...
1•sohkamyung•3m ago•0 comments

Quantinuum Sees Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing by 2029

https://www.wsj.com/tech/quantinuum-sees-path-to-fault-tolerant-quantum-computing-by-2029-with-ne...
1•donutloop•3m ago•0 comments

Dynamics of Sentiment and Attitudes Toward AI Among Developers

https://blog.jetbrains.com/research/2026/10/dynamics-of-sentiment-and-attitudes-toward-ai-among-d...
1•mikece•4m ago•0 comments

Pray, Mr. Babbage, what about search?

https://digitalseams.com/blog/pray-mr-babbage-what-about-search
1•bobbiechen•7m ago•0 comments

Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware

https://heymaxwell.ai/
2•laginimaineb•8m ago•2 comments

French rioters ransack eSports team premises and looting RAM sticks from PCs

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/french-rioters-ransack-esports-team-premises-a...
1•ilreb•8m ago•0 comments

The Cost of Looking Competent

https://yusufaytas.com/the-cost-of-looking-competent
6•juggernet•8m ago•0 comments

Close pass of Russian military satellite with US satellite aiding Ukraine ( 26m)

https://orbitalradar.com/conjunction/59103-68762
2•NicoJuicy•8m ago•1 comments

3 shuttered nuclear plants could soon power homes, AI data centers

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1•pseudolus•8m ago•0 comments

The fiberglass dinosaur Star Wars turned into a krayt dragon (2-min documentary)

https://archive.org/details/the-dragon-we-made
1•vincentilands•13m ago•0 comments

Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 8GB VRAM and 32 GB RAM at 20T/S

https://github.com/tin-hat/Qwen-tin
1•chess39•14m ago•0 comments

How a Linux Kernel Improvement Can Strike You in PXC/Galera Workloads

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1•malcolm_x•14m ago•0 comments

Pre-Orders Open for Flipper One

https://flipper.net/pages/flipper-one
1•MiliasGeiger•15m ago•0 comments

Mstamp: Sign API records so a third party can verify them offline

https://github.com/samschotvanger-rgb/mstamp
1•samschotvanger•16m ago•0 comments

AI, AI, AI: Learn how to play, fail and tinker with machines

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1•surprisetalk•16m ago•0 comments

To That (Glue Advice)

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1•randycupertino•16m ago•0 comments

German courts rule Google liable for what its AI search says

https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/18/german-courts-google-liable-ai-overviews-ai-mode-aachen-munich-r...
2•robin_reala•17m ago•0 comments

US teens can access 'nudify' apps despite Apple and Google's parental controls

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/19/us-teens-nudify-apps-apple-google-parental-con...
2•pseudolus•17m ago•0 comments

Building a proactive workflow with Claude [video]

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1•endangeredhuman•17m ago•0 comments

San Francisco's shuttered downtown mall is being eyed for an AI data center

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/downtown-mall-data-center-ai-22480545.php
2•novia•19m ago•0 comments

Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer

http://www.boredhackerblog.info/2026/10/plex-vulnerabilities-being-exploited-in.html
1•mindracer•19m ago•0 comments

Start with Your Coding Agents

https://grokking.agency/posts/building-agents-with-agents-part-1/
1•CaHoop•19m ago•0 comments

How You Remember Therapy

https://mytherapynotes.co
1•Barak23230•20m ago•0 comments

Wine Ported to OpenBSD

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2•iamnothere•20m ago•0 comments

Cairn: Open Windows into AI-Driven Cyber Operations

https://norforge.com/blog/inside_cairn
1•ragu4u•20m ago•0 comments

STM32 based SDR GPS receiver

https://github.com/iliasam/STM32F4_SDR_GPS
1•kristianpaul•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ApolloOffice – Local AI workers that turn GitHub issues into tested PRs

https://github.com/Silvertree2010/ApolloOffice
1•NetterSilver•22m ago•0 comments