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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 :)

AI Models Are Great at Finding Security Bugs. Can They Tell When They're Fixed?

https://medium.com/meetcyber/ai-models-are-great-at-finding-security-bugs-but-can-they-tell-when-...
1•ls1911•3m ago•0 comments

BillFlowr: Simple invoicing and payment tracking for freelancers, small agencies

https://www.billflowr.com
1•jimmy_lee•3m ago•0 comments

Uswds is dead. Long live USWDS

https://matthenry.fyi/posts/long-live-uswds/
2•cdrnsf•4m ago•0 comments

Prediction of Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare for 2025 (2001)[pdf]

https://archive.org/details/future-strategic-issues-and-warfare_202011
1•smalltorch•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Harness.apk – a drop-in on-device agent for Android

https://github.com/nev3rfail/harness.apk
1•nev3rfail•5m ago•0 comments

Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/texas-prison-air-conditioning-lawsuit-ruling/
2•bonefishgrill•6m ago•0 comments

Welcoming Jürgen Schmidhuber to Sakana AI

https://sakana.ai/schmidhuber/
3•hardmaru•6m ago•0 comments

DentaQuest sued for allegedly exposing 15M patients' private information

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/dentaquest-sued-for-allegedly-exposi...
1•sans_souse•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Cancel Death – What changed in longevity science

https://canceldeath.com
1•kiddz•8m ago•0 comments

Night Shifts: Can technology shape our dreams?

1•momentmaker•8m ago•1 comments

AI doomers may be wrong but the skeptics seem even wronger

https://mathewingramblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/ai-doomers-may-be-wrong-but-the-skeptics-seem-e...
2•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vigil Icons – 111 free icons for what people accuse each other of

https://www.vigilicons.com/
2•vigilantk•9m ago•1 comments

Give every take a kill date

https://firstlastword.substack.com/p/give-every-take-a-kill-date
2•grrrtttt•9m ago•0 comments

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/
1•momentmaker•10m ago•0 comments

Play is doing its work even if we're not keeping score

https://aeon.co/essays/play-is-doing-its-work-even-if-were-not-keeping-score
2•momentmaker•10m ago•0 comments

NASA's New $4B Space Telescope Just Saw Starlight for the First Time

https://gizmodo.com/nasas-new-4-billion-space-telescope-just-saw-starlight-for-the-first-time-her...
1•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

What Happens When the Model Eats the Stack?

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/09/what-happens-when-model-eats-stack.html
4•mark4•12m ago•0 comments

EU Tech Push Boosts Ultrafast Laser Startups

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ultrafast-lasers-europe
1•maxall4•12m ago•0 comments

Wiring memory into an agent costs tokens every turn. This one earned it back

https://vshulcz.github.io/deja-vu/guide/day-zero.html
1•vshulcz•12m ago•0 comments

Europe Must Choose Between Power and Dependence

https://slavoj.substack.com/p/europe-must-choose
1•vincvinc•15m ago•0 comments

Mathematics in the Age of AI Oracles [pdf]

https://colala.berkeley.edu/papers/piantadosi2026mathematics.pdf
2•pharmacy7766•15m ago•0 comments

CVE-2026-91766: PHP had the redirect credential leak curl fixed in 2018

https://daubois.dev/blog/cve-2026-91766-php-http-redirect-credential-leak/
2•amvalex•16m ago•1 comments

LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data

https://therecord.media/linkedin-wins-court-order-blocking-mass-scraping
3•ilamont•18m ago•0 comments

Megafauna Extinction and Startups

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/23/megafauna-extinction-and-startups
2•johnjwang•19m ago•0 comments

Discovering and exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenCode

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/opencode-upgrade-remote-code-execution/
2•meetpateltech•21m ago•0 comments

Chicago No. 1

https://dynamicallytyped.org/typewriters/176
3•Bluestein•22m ago•0 comments

Oracle invokes force majeure on New Mexico AI data center

https://qz.com/oracle-force-majeure-new-mexico-ai-data-center-092426
3•dgellow•23m ago•0 comments

Making the case for Ed Zitron as the last of the great bloggers

http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/09/i-think-you-can-make-case-that-ed.html
3•bediger4000•24m ago•0 comments

I Have a Confession: I Built This Site with AI – Please Forgive Me

https://dynamicallytyped.org/blog/i-have-a-confession-i-built-this-site-with-ai
3•joelberger•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Timebar, a Mac timer shown as a thin line below the menu bar

https://github.com/velvet-shark/timebar
1•sabon•28m ago•1 comments