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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
1•kuberwastaken•4h ago

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kuberwastaken•4h 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 :)

Chinese Celebrate J-10C Fighters' "Success" over Rafale Jets During In-Pak Clash

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/as-claims-about-pakistan-shooting-down-rafale/
1•inverted_flag•53s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: My company is forcing 1 week sprints. What should I do?

1•mcsolid•59s ago•0 comments

Anchor links copied from project READMEs now add a query parameter

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/70577
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

State-Tracer – Visualize Recoil and Jotai State Dependencies

1•apple-yagi•1m ago•0 comments

Creating a Search Engine for Fun

https://vincents.dev/blog/creating-a-search-engine/
1•mooreds•2m ago•0 comments

Creating Products People Want with Brian Pontarelli [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjbrojPqpYo
1•mooreds•3m ago•0 comments

The Future of Programming

1•victor_js•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are you using AI coding assistance?

1•cloudking•7m ago•0 comments

Simulating high-speed solar wind streams from coronal holes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-97246-2
1•PaulHoule•10m ago•0 comments

A Lightweight Merge Queue Using GitHub Actions

https://sketch.dev/blog/lightweight-merge-queue
1•caust1c•11m ago•0 comments

D1: Scaling Reasoning in Diffusion LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

https://dllm-reasoning.github.io/
2•t55•12m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Granola to Pull Notes into Obsidian

https://josephthacker.com/hacking/2025/05/08/reverse-engineering-granola-notes.html
1•rez0123•12m ago•0 comments

The reason why I don't use AI or even code completion

https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-reason-why-i-dont-use-ai-or-even-code-completion.html
2•bitbasher•12m ago•0 comments

Are LLMs more than autocomplete? AI Debate

https://rehearsal.so/character/98f9ac23-9b48-49a0-99dc-d72d9b88d230
1•t55•13m ago•0 comments

My Excellent Conversation with Jack Clark

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/05/my-excellent-conversation-with-jack-clark.html
1•paulpauper•18m ago•0 comments

kit - Code Intelligence Toolkit

https://github.com/cased/kit
1•helloericsf•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built a site for tech comparisons backed by battle scars, not AI

https://convinceme.tech
1•Hmerac•29m ago•0 comments

Gender characteristics of service robots can influence customer decisions

https://www.psu.edu/news/health-and-human-development/story/gender-characteristics-service-robots-can-influence-customer
2•gnabgib•30m ago•0 comments

Belgian teens arrested with 5k smuggled ants, Kenya warns new trafficking trends

https://apnews.com/article/garden-ants-kenya-smugglers-belgians-vietnamese-624f12ae80e0d66a87f03966079efbc1
2•bookofjoe•32m ago•0 comments

Enforcement of Copilot premium request limits moved to June 4, 2025

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-07-enforcement-of-copilot-premium-request-limits-moved-to-june-4-2025/
2•kjhughes•34m ago•0 comments

Attacked by Thugs (2004)

https://idlewords.com/2004/05/attacked_by_thugs.htm
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The Molecular Bond That Helps Secure Your Memories

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-molecular-bond-that-helps-secure-your-memories-20250507/
1•pseudolus•37m ago•0 comments

VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/
7•turtlegrids•37m ago•0 comments

Reasons to Write More in an Age When Writing Means Less

https://miloandthecalf.substack.com/p/three-reasons-to-write-more-in-an
2•paulpauper•39m ago•0 comments

Globalization did not hollow out the U.S. middle class

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1•paulpauper•39m ago•0 comments

How eggs break and the role of strength versus toughness

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02087-0
1•sohkamyung•42m ago•0 comments

Radiation Tolerant Software Framework for Space Applications

https://github.com/r0nlt/Space-Radiation-Tolerant
6•r0nlt•42m ago•0 comments

Speeding Up Graph Learning Models with PyG and Torch.compile

https://kumo.ai/research/speeding-up-graph-learning-models-with-pyg-and-torch-compile/
1•gk1•48m ago•0 comments

It is now possible to use Bluesky without using any centralized infrastructure

https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-report-115/
8•wmf•58m ago•0 comments

AI Event-Driven Agent for Research Assistant from Scratch

https://github.com/motiadev/motia-examples/tree/main/examples/research-assistant
1•rohitghumare•1h ago•1 comments