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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•8mo ago

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kuberwastaken•8mo 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 :)

An alternative to code mode: serverless MCP

https://www.speakeasy.com/blog/how-we-reduced-token-usage-by-100x-dynamic-toolsets-v2
1•ndimares•1m ago•0 comments

Meta Unveils Nuclear-Power Plan to Fuel Its AI Ambitions

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-unveils-sweeping-nuclear-power-plan-to-fuel-its-ai-ambitions-65c...
1•fortran77•2m ago•1 comments

EU states' nod on Mercosur trade deal ends 25-year wait

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1•wslh•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LiteGPT – Pre-training a 124M LLM from scratch on a single RTX 4090

https://github.com/kmkrofficial/LiteGPT
2•kmkrworks•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free noise evidence generator for tenant complaints

https://noiseevidence.com/
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2•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

Italy Fines Cloudflare €14M for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

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3•iamnothere•9m ago•0 comments

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USB VSense Design Deep Dive #2 – The Efficiency Mandate

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1•bariumbitmap•11m ago•0 comments

EU countries approve Mercosur trade deal after 25 years of talks

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-approve-mercosur-trade-deal-for-signature/
4•tosh•12m ago•1 comments

Technical Blogging Lessons Learned

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https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/logbeautify
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https://research.google/pubs/dapper-a-large-scale-distributed-systems-tracing-infrastructure/
1•tosh•14m ago•0 comments

Amazon Sponsors AI Energy Summit Featuring Climate Deniers

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2•robtherobber•15m ago•0 comments

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Library Liberation-Competitive Performance Through Compiler-Composed Nanokernels

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13764
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3•rbanffy•23m ago•2 comments

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1•rbanffy•23m ago•0 comments

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2•iljah•24m ago•1 comments

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2•cdrnsf•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PromptStash – Save and Reuse AI Prompts Across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/promptstash-ai-prompt-man/ocgkponbnolpgobllplcamfobolbjbcj
1•ktg0215•26m ago•1 comments

Cisco switches hit by reboot loops due to DNS client bug

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3•mooreds•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Magrittr-like pipe syntax for Python

https://github.com/smacke/pipescript
1•smacke•27m ago•0 comments