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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 :)

Dozens rescued in southeastern Missouri as 1-in-1k-year rainfall

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/10/weather/missouri-flood-rescues-campers-climate
1•Bender•41s ago•0 comments

Show HN: A free and open source session recording Chrome extension

1•mohsen1•1m ago•0 comments

The 4-Bitter Lesson: Balancing Stability and Performance in NVFP4 RL

https://humansand.ai/blog/nvfp4-rl
1•Areibman•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: My lunch-break transformer in C became a book about my toddlers

https://github.com/carlovalenti/TRiP/blob/main/My_TRiP_through_AI-Chapter3.md
1•carlovalenti•2m ago•0 comments

FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-approves-reflect-orbitals-giant-mirror-satellite-that-astronomers-...
1•healsdata•2m ago•0 comments

Millions told to stay indoors lung-penetrating toxins sweep across two US states

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15969309/toxic-air-arizona-colorado-wildfire-smoke....
1•Bender•3m ago•0 comments

Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok, a model he admits is worse

https://electrek.co/2026/07/10/musk-tells-tesla-staff-switch-grok/
1•Bender•5m ago•0 comments

I run my agency's 10 AI agents from launchd, no n8n, 0 dependencies

https://github.com/Botfather90/digiton-agent-fleet
1•Brandon99pt•7m ago•0 comments

Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize winning inventor of Blue LED, working on fusion

https://www.cnn.com/science/shuji-nakamura-lit-up-the-world-and-now-wants-to-power-it-spc
3•osnium123•11m ago•0 comments

Looks good, feels bad? Review explains why modern design can strain your brain

https://www.stir.ac.uk/news/2026/july-2026-news/looks-good-feels-bad-stirling-led-review-explains...
2•hhs•12m ago•0 comments

Let us now praise famous shape rotators

https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/let-us-now-praise-famous-shape-rotators
1•HR01•15m ago•0 comments

AIsteels – Materials Intelligence Stack

https://www.aisteels.it/
1•DrNuke•15m ago•0 comments

A Brief History of the Crazy Old 7-Segment Display

https://hackaday.com/2026/07/09/a-brief-history-of-the-crazy-old-7-segment-display/
2•kristianp•16m ago•1 comments

WolfIP Doesn't Allocate

https://hackaday.com/2026/04/09/wolfip-doesnt-allocate/
1•kristianp•17m ago•0 comments

Plants get wearables to track their health

https://now.tufts.edu/2026/07/08/plants-get-wearables-track-their-health
2•hhs•18m ago•0 comments

Gesamtwerk // Metaphysische Systemtheorie Ein Zustandsraum-Modell

https://www.academia.edu/169875498/GESAMTWERK_METAPHYSISCHE_SYSTEMTHEORIE_Ein_Zustandsraum_Modell...
1•MMSI•19m ago•0 comments

Arizona toddler declared dead was found alive in the morgue

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arizona-toddler-declared-dead-was-found-alive-morgue-rcna352853
3•type0•22m ago•0 comments

Gary Kildall's Death Investigation

https://dfarq.homeip.net/gary-kildalls-death-investigation/
3•rbanffy•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I scrape an $8.5M-ARR company run by AI agents and chart it live

https://maertspolsia.mzpx.ai
1•pro_methe5•22m ago•0 comments

Stop Making Threads

https://moonside.games/posts/stop-making-threads/
1•chnoblouch•26m ago•0 comments

China takes a page from SpaceX and recaptures first stage of rocket to reuse it

https://apnews.com/article/china-rocket-space-reuse-6d695fcad64a101dc3991c1bfa0e7357
1•tocs3•29m ago•0 comments

Tip

https://vivaldi.com/blog/tips/tip-830/
1•nahidai•29m ago•0 comments

Go Pop quiz: what time was it?

https://dave.cheney.net/2025/12/18/pop-quiz-what-time-was-it
1•kristianp•33m ago•0 comments

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
9•hhs•36m ago•4 comments

China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/china-recovered-its-first-reusable-rocket-and-showed-a-new-...
2•sohkamyung•37m ago•0 comments

It's Now Imperative That You Copy That Floppy

https://hackaday.com/2026/07/07/its-now-imperative-that-you-copy-that-floppy/
1•rbanffy•37m ago•0 comments

OmFest Interest Form

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyY9c5MowPFW6BmIitqaaF3T-ykM_d8eD2pq2XqwSt7N50zg/viewform
1•mooreds•40m ago•0 comments

Old Icons – All This

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/07/old-icons/
1•rbanffy•41m ago•0 comments

Neobrutalism Layouts

https://www.neobrutalism.dev/
1•modinfo•43m ago•0 comments

MCPA: The First Official Certification for the Model Context Protocol

https://aaif.io/blog/introducing-the-mcpa-the-first-official-certification-for-the-model-context-...
1•mooreds•43m ago•0 comments