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AI to Kids by Letting Them Tweak Local Chatbots [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNkt41q7eqs
1•dbreunig•13m ago•0 comments

Rsync 3.5 Released as "Extraordinary" Update to Fix 33 Security Issues

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rsync-3.5
1•Bender•13m ago•0 comments

Long Story Short: Daily word game

https://gizmodo.com/long-story-short-wants-to-be-the-wordle-of-editing-bad-sentences-2000797842
1•akashwadhwani35•15m ago•0 comments

General Dynamics Failed to Build Artillery Shells for the Army

https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artillery-factory-failed
2•colinprince•18m ago•0 comments

Is Bending Spoons Good for Startups?

https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/bending-spoons-a-capital-cycle-play/
2•Altaba•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: UTC Time - live clock, ISO 8601, Unix timestamp

https://utctime.app/
1•nadermx•23m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-pro
1•theanonymousone•25m ago•0 comments

Install Manticore Search with one command

https://medium.com/@s_nikolaev/install-manticore-search-with-one-command-8ab5ba07a06b
1•snikolaev•29m ago•0 comments

Specula: Scaling formal specs for autonomous model checking of system code

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/specula-scaling-formal-specifications.html
1•matt_d•33m ago•0 comments

16GB EGPU for AI Inference, $699

https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-Graphics-128-bit-Server-Grade-Thunderbolt/dp/B0GKFHSPN8
2•shrubble•33m ago•3 comments

Show HN: I asked Claude to write DDIA as a live comic

https://systemscomic.com/ddia/read
2•samuelxing•34m ago•0 comments

How the smiley face was born

https://www.history.com/articles/smiley-face-history
2•inatreecrown2•38m ago•0 comments

Edge is dropping older extensions(Manifest V2), affecting popular privacy tools

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/08/edge-is-dropping-older-extensions-affecting-popula...
5•BearBest•44m ago•0 comments

You're Absolutely Right

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u8TdDutDyaSxG76hn/you-re-absolutely-right
1•LinchZhang•56m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Rule-lite – Tiny dependency-free TS engine for JSON conditional rules

https://github.com/tejas821/rule-lite
1•tejas821•56m ago•0 comments

From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work

https://openai.com/index/how-enterprises-put-ai-to-work/
2•vcfgdev•58m ago•0 comments

A unified CLI for native OS keychains – x keyring

https://www.x-cmd.com/blog/260811/
1•Zhengqbbb•1h ago•0 comments

OpenLiving - A data center you can live in [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwkBXNOPa_w
1•inatreecrown2•1h ago•0 comments

Pixel Watch 5 adds a feature Apple Watch desperately needs

https://www.cultofmac.com/news/pixel-watch-5-insulin-resistance-trends
4•ValentineC•1h ago•1 comments

Examples for use of AI and especially LLMs in major mathematical developments

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/502120/examples-for-the-use-of-ai-and-especially-llms-in-major...
1•vismit2000•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent Memory Leaderboard – first public results for AI memory systems

https://agentmemoryleaderboard.ai/leaderboard/academic/textual
2•IreneAI•1h ago•0 comments

SLAC: CPU-to-GPU Side-Channel Attacks via System-Level Cache on Apple Silicon

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09075
3•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga
3•emptybits•1h ago•0 comments

Dart 3.13

https://dart.dev/blog/announcing-dart-3-13
2•wstrange•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm tired replying my social media visitors, I let AI agent handle it

https://www.agle.app/
1•tapriliando•1h ago•0 comments

Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
2•colinprince•1h ago•0 comments

Tech adds phone tracking to license plate readers, associating devices with cars

https://theconversation.com/new-tech-adds-phone-tracking-to-license-plate-readers-associating-dev...
9•asdefghyk•1h ago•1 comments

Two weeks later and Adsense is still serving up Scareware

https://bsky.app/profile/redbluething.bsky.social/post/3mswnjfufs22v
2•redbluething•1h ago•0 comments

'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/12/near-autonomous-ai-agents-attack-taiwans-nuclear-...
5•Bender•1h ago•0 comments

Tailscale says deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's outages

https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/08/12/tailscale-says-deeply-buried-16-year-old-sqlite-...
4•Bender•1h ago•0 comments
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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 :)