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Legal AI startup Harvey reaches $15.6B valuation with $550M round

https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-09/legal-ai-startup-harvey-hits-15-6-billion-value-wi...
1•utiiiD•1m ago•0 comments

Investor Who's Convinced That Pokémon Cards Will Be Currency After an Apocalypse

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/trading-cards-growth-pokemon-apocalypse-...
1•cainxinth•1m ago•0 comments

How Companies Undercut Dissent

https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/how-companies-quietly-undercut-dissent/
1•robtherobber•2m ago•0 comments

The 'Gen Z stare' – and the decline of saying things out loud

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/gen-z-stare-decline-saying-090000441.html
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

EP-1: our first local model that summarises meeting notes

https://www.epilude.com/news/introducing-ep-1
1•brmkr•3m ago•1 comments

Do wind and solar farms tank home values? A 20-year study has an answer

https://electrek.co/2026/09/08/do-wind-and-solar-farms-tank-home-values-a-20-year-study-has-an-an...
2•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Jump in the Deep End with Philip K. Dick

https://reactormag.com/jump-in-the-deep-end-with-philip-k-dick/
2•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

Investors Read Pitch Decks – Data from 24,541 Decks

https://valueaddvc.com/blog/how-investors-read-pitch-decks-data-from-24000-decks
3•t_cohen•4m ago•0 comments

The everything theory of mass transit

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-everything-theory-of-mass-transit/
2•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

New EU Repair Rules [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N66XA9UwaRA
4•theNotFractured•8m ago•0 comments

Amazon accused in lawsuit of systematic discrimination against pregnant workers

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-accused-lawsuit-of-systematic-pregnancy-dis...
3•tartoran•10m ago•0 comments

Investing in Mothers? The Long-Run Impact of a Universal Child Care

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35514
2•throw0101d•11m ago•0 comments

Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch

https://github.com/Atomburstofficial/geiger
2•atomburst•12m ago•0 comments

US accuses Chinese AI firms of 'malicious' copying of AI technology

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-accuses-chinese-ai-firms-industrial-scale-theft-ai-technolo...
2•tartoran•12m ago•0 comments

Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe's car-centric spaces

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/sep/09/european-prize-urban-public-space-climate-cr...
2•robtherobber•12m ago•0 comments

Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/07/hitachi-launches-co2-heat-pump-water-heaters-with-solar-fr...
3•thelastgallon•12m ago•1 comments

A Git Config Key Ran Code in Seven Coding Agents. The 2022 Fix Does Not Stop It

https://grith.ai/blog/git-config-key-2022-fix-coding-agents
4•edf13•13m ago•0 comments

Knowledge vs. wisdom: asking AI "What mushroom is that?"

https://quesma.com/blog/mushroom-llm-just-ask/
2•stared•16m ago•0 comments

A language, a runtime and preludes built for LLMs, not for humans

https://ptc-runner.dev/blog/tools-built-for-llms/
2•andreasronge•16m ago•0 comments

Founder is making cheaper, cleaner steel

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/08/1142094/laureen-meroueh-makes-cheaper-cleaner-steel/
1•rbanffy•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PhotoToPattern – Turn photos into printable cross-stitch patterns

https://phototopattern.com/
2•taylorzhuzhu•17m ago•0 comments

From UX to AX: How AI Agents Change Application Design

https://geekyants.com/en-us/blog/from-ux-to-ax-designing-applications-for-a-world-of-ai-agents
3•jamessmith789•17m ago•0 comments

Geneticist's age-reversal tech could help restore sight

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/08/1142074/yuancheng-ryan-lu-age-reversal-tech-restores-...
2•rbanffy•18m ago•0 comments

One decision put Ruby into a downward spiral. It's not too late to fix it

https://rubyai.beehiiv.com/p/one-decision-put-ruby-into-a-downward-spiral-it-s-not-too-late-to-fi...
2•zxspectrumk48•19m ago•0 comments

Public vs. Private LLM

https://wirt.ee/logbook/litellm-proxy/
2•portmortem•20m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare Startups Program

https://www.cloudflare.com/startups/
2•tomrod•20m ago•0 comments

Chuwi UniBook with Intel Wildcat Lake for a $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop

https://www.phoronix.com/review/chuwi-unibook-wildcat-lake
2•rbanffy•20m ago•0 comments

Batteries just broke another record in the US

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/09/1143680/batteries-us-record/
6•Brajeshwar•21m ago•2 comments

Running coding agents on a €30 Linux box

https://danhopwood.com/posts/running-coding-agents-on-a-30-euro-linux-box
1•michael-sumner•25m ago•0 comments

My path to 100%ing Balatro

https://indiehellzone.com/2026/08/27/my-path-to-100ing-balatro/
2•surprisetalk•26m 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 :)