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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•11mo ago

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kuberwastaken•11mo 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 :)

USB/IP Project: a general USB device sharing system over IP network

https://usbip.sourceforge.net/
1•ValentineC•1m ago•0 comments

PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mir/
1•opengrass•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I visualized Wasteland as an RTS game

https://gascraft.ai
1•dnewcome•5m ago•0 comments

React-Debug-Updates

https://github.com/pie6k/react-debug-updates
1•handfuloflight•11m ago•0 comments

No Acquittal for Storm Today

https://www.therage.co/roman-storm-acquittal-2/
1•Cider9986•18m ago•0 comments

Hungary 2026 – Chat with 1k AI-simulated voters before the election

https://hungary2026.populon.ai
1•Mert_Predicts•21m ago•0 comments

Hero rat who sniffed out over 100 land mines is honored with giant statue

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1•paulpauper•24m ago•1 comments

A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

https://www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebooks
3•paulpauper•24m ago•0 comments

Apple Sued by Three YouTube Channels

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5•gnabgib•24m ago•1 comments

Forecasting the economic effects of AI

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1•hhs•25m ago•0 comments

New WHO database helps countries turn health data into better policy

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1•gnabgib•26m ago•0 comments

Predict-Rlm: The LLM Runtime That Lets Models Write Their Own Control Flow

https://repo-explainer.com/Trampoline-AI/predict-rlm
1•handfuloflight•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to have a macOS devcontainer in VS Code?

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The Exception Butterfly

https://valhovey.github.io/blog/the-exception-butterfly
1•speleo•29m ago•0 comments

Waiting for Postgres 19: Reduced Timing Overhead for EXPLAIN ANALYZE with RDTSC

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1 in 30 – Artemis, Greatness, and Risk

https://1517.substack.com/p/1-in-30-artemis-greatness-and-risk
1•crescit_eundo•31m ago•0 comments

AI will test governments on jobs, training, and public trust

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1•hhs•31m ago•0 comments

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https://app.ambr.music/
1•stamc•31m ago•0 comments

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/11/anthropic-christians-claude-morals/
2•edwardsrobbie•34m ago•0 comments

How to Switch AI Chatbots and Why You Might Want To

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-to-switch-ai-chatbots-and-why-you-might-want-to-8aaccfd4
1•nanfinitum•35m ago•1 comments

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Telegram as an Agent Control Plane

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Trump wants to cover a White House office building with 'magic paint.'

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1•Cider9986•38m ago•0 comments

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1•hyperific•40m ago•0 comments

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2•myth_drannon•44m ago•0 comments

Sent ChatGPT audio file of FART sound effects, asked what it thinks of my music

https://twitter.com/i/status/2042445078417834043
4•lando2319•45m ago•0 comments

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2•gmays•49m ago•1 comments

Bessent Urgently Summons Bank CEOs over Anthropic's New AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2WsfcwfEgs
3•OhMeadhbh•52m ago•1 comments

AI for Systems: Using LLMs to Optimize Database Query Execution

https://www.together.ai/blog/using-llms-to-optimize-database-query-execution
1•matt_d•54m ago•0 comments

Side projects: perché falliscono (e come evitarlo davvero)

https://donatodelpeschio.it/blog/side-projects-perche-falliscono-come-evitarlo
1•donnyBlanko•57m ago•0 comments