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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 :)

Existing industry processes are blueprints for AI workflows

https://abtdomain.com/blog/2026/07/from-fords-assembly-line-to-local-ai-pipelines/
1•ABTdomain•1m ago•0 comments

eBay and ex-executives to pay $55.7M to couple sent cockroaches

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/28/ebay-harassment-lawsuit-settlement
1•mitchbob•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Energy, carbon and water estimates for AI content, shown as ranges

https://aicontentfootprint.com/
1•daniloedu•2m ago•0 comments

The rise of fake online shopping platforms that let you pretend to buy things

https://www.fastcompany.com/91560432/dopamine-sites-fake-online-shopping-apps-let-you-pretend-to-...
1•austinallegro•2m ago•0 comments

Emacs Writing Machine

https://chainsawriot.com/postmannheim/2026/07/25/writeredeck.html
1•abnercoimbre•4m ago•0 comments

Newsmax, Meta Enter AI Content Partnership

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/newsmax-meta-enter-ai-content-partnership
1•cdrnsf•6m ago•0 comments

CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs Do Cryptanalysis?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18538
1•zdw•7m ago•0 comments

Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

https://upx.github.io/
2•jcbhmr•8m ago•0 comments

Replit Design

https://replit.com/blog/introducing-replit-design
1•ai2027•8m ago•0 comments

DoorDash Air, Our In-House Drone Delivery Program

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-air
1•ChrisArchitect•8m ago•0 comments

Enterprises are building their AI sales tools in-house and buying the data layer

https://www.octavehq.com/post/enterprise-gtm-ai-2026
1•connor11528•9m ago•0 comments

Hacktoberfest 2025

https://hacktoberfest.com
1•kushagra1117•9m ago•0 comments

We Created a Free Password Manager for AI Agents

https://serendb.com/blog/three-reasons-we-created-seren-passwords-for-ai-agents-before-humans
1•lewistaariq•11m ago•0 comments

DoorDash unveils its own drone delivery service after FAA approval

https://www.engadget.com/2226069/doordash-drone-delivery-service-faa-approval/
3•bookofjoe•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agentsnap – Snapshot testing for AI agents

https://github.com/iamfaham/AgentSnap
3•iamfaham•13m ago•0 comments

A requiem for Intel's Optane, which could have eased the RAM price crunch

https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/07/29/a-requiem-for-optane-intels-kv-cache-killer-that-c...
4•kencausey•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite

https://kedge.dev/
6•wgjordan•15m ago•0 comments

How to design NATS subject hierarchies

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3•jonzu•15m ago•0 comments

Const_cast: A Necessary Evil

https://www.elbeno.com/blog/?p=1858
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Two new sermons by St Augustine discovered

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3•leopoldj•18m ago•0 comments

Matching files to apps: how UTIs work

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3•Brajeshwar•19m ago•0 comments

Advice for tech writers on a job hunt in the AI age

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4•theletterf•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: College application essay inspiration and brainstorm

https://essaycompass.net/
3•boveyking•21m ago•0 comments

I Want to Leave the Internet

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5•Looky1173•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Experience with MSFT Security Copilot and the new response capabilities?

3•tty46•23m ago•0 comments

Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator [video]

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/archaeopteryx-bowkett/
2•e-topy•23m ago•0 comments

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area

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3•marojejian•23m ago•1 comments

My Mom Teaches a Course on ADHD

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3•Netherland4TW•23m ago•0 comments

Why We're Dropping Basecamp (2023)

https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/
5•ksec•23m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Faces UK Probe over Copilot-Linked Price Hikes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/microsoft-faces-uk-probe-over-copilot-linked-p...
3•sbulaev•24m ago•1 comments