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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 :)

Learning Cultures Reading Group: "Like Coding in the Dark"

https://www.maayanroth.com/blog/posts/coding-in-the-dark.html
1•evakhoury•37s ago•0 comments

Workout or nap? Either can help your sleepless brain

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/workout-or-nap-either-can-help-your-sleepless-brain-...
1•gmays•1m ago•0 comments

Who holds the steering wheel of AI?

https://ana15.substack.com/p/who-holds-the-steering-wheel-of-ai
1•aborovykh•2m ago•0 comments

My first open source project

1•theguysudo•3m ago•1 comments

Anthropic close to awarding Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs top roles in IPO

https://www.ft.com/content/3c9d0a82-643b-44ef-96a0-74a00e3c72ba
2•cdrnsf•3m ago•0 comments

The Sealed Document TikTok Doesn't Want Two Senators to See

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-04/the-sealed-document-tiktok-doesn-t-want-two-se...
2•formerlurker•3m ago•0 comments

Finding a Bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra

https://kallus.org/blog/dummit_and_foote.html
1•evakhoury•3m ago•0 comments

First-in-Human Trial of CRISPR Therapy Shown to Safely Lower Cholesterol

https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2026/08/28/cleveland-clinic-first-in-human-trial-of-crispr-g...
2•geox•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Play Motodle (Guess the motorbike in 5 tries)

https://playmotodle.com/
1•notori0us•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ultracapitalism, a Company-Building Autobattler

https://chromagolem.itch.io/ultracapitalism
1•ChromaGolem•5m ago•0 comments

GPT-6 Astra Generally Available

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2095968413646737608
8•samyok•7m ago•1 comments

How to Create a Tor Exit Node

https://madpsy.uk/how-to-create-a-tor-exit-node/
2•Eridanus2•7m ago•0 comments

Search NASA's Portfolio of Technologies

https://techport.nasa.gov/
1•o4c•9m ago•0 comments

An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy

https://quad9.net/
3•mooreds•10m ago•0 comments

The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin

https://blog.asciitweezers.com/the-uv-index-is-not-the-warm-sensation-of-sunlight-on-bare-skin/
2•evakhoury•11m ago•1 comments

$220k in 5 days – the outbid.lol interview

https://www.highsignal.io/220k-in-5-days-the-outbid-lol-interview/
2•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Bin Laden's "Letter to America"

https://ceu.su/letter_to_america.html
4•kome•13m ago•0 comments

Searching for the Best Silicone USB Cable

https://www.frankchiarulli.com/blog/best-silicone-usb-cable/
1•evakhoury•17m ago•0 comments

RSA-260 has been cracked

https://twitter.com/penlume/status/2095372672356212876
3•LopRabbit•18m ago•1 comments

Using a PC sound card to receive VLF radio signals (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2W1x6Rb9hI
1•joebig•19m ago•0 comments

Israel water authority dumped toxins into Mediterranean to kill algae bloom

https://twitter.com/MatanHodorov/status/2095507064881623111
2•newspaper1•20m ago•1 comments

Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersec Initiative Datacenter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
1•Bluestein•20m ago•0 comments

US Senator demands NSA update VPN guidance over foreign spying risks

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/us-senator-demands-nsa-update-vpn-guidance-ove...
3•devonnull•22m ago•0 comments

US Military turns off ad trackers on devices amid Middle East targeting reports

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-military-turns-off-ad-trackers-devices-amid-mid...
2•TechTechTech•26m ago•1 comments

Code Review Tool

https://github.com/larsmw/codevalidator
1•larsmw•29m ago•0 comments

Sudden Unexpected Death in the Pfizer BNT162b2 Trial

https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/7810/99193550508
1•blumomo•30m ago•0 comments

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/
27•iopapa•35m ago•14 comments

Character Development: A story about subtitles, cinema, and the Satos (2022)

https://media.typography.or.jp/typographicst/1194
2•1317•37m ago•0 comments

GPT-6-Astra Generally Available on Vercel's AI Gateway

https://twitter.com/vercel_dev/status/2095957372850389186
2•samyok•43m ago•0 comments

GotChat – Apache 2.0 LLM chat with installable full-stacked plugins

https://github.com/gotchat-ai/foundry
1•gotchat•43m ago•0 comments