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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•8mo ago

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kuberwastaken•8mo 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 :)

Danish PM tells Trump to stop 'threats' against Greenland

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o
1•saubeidl•1m ago•0 comments

A "bridge month" cost to run Venezuela:$1.5B–$3.0B/month(public sources, charts)

https://www.thepricer.org/how-much-would-running-venezuela-cost-per-month/
1•jasonmomnah•2m ago•1 comments

Expensive food makes children fat

https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/001-2026
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The Hive Mind

https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-hive-mind/
1•rcarmo•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Would you back a standards proposal to taint AI output?

1•jacquesm•8m ago•0 comments

The Future of Coding Agents

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c
1•TheAnkurTyagi•14m ago•0 comments

Secondhand Truth

https://voidtalker.com/secondhand-truth/
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What we're talking about, when we talk about data destruction

https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2019/01/what-were-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-data-...
1•fanf2•15m ago•0 comments

The French university where spies go for training

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98nqeqnylro
1•mellosouls•16m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/vaitko/stopbitingnails.app
1•vaitko•24m ago•0 comments

The Year in Computer Science

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-computer-science-20251216/
1•isaacfrond•25m ago•0 comments

Recovering depth from images using Markov Random Fields

https://nghiaho.com/?page_id=1366
1•vitaelabitur•26m ago•0 comments

GNU Ddrescue 1.30 Released

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2026-01/msg00001.html
3•guiambros•33m ago•0 comments

Why I Cold-Called President Trump at 4:30 in the Morning

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/insider/trump-interview-venezuela-nyt-reporter.html
1•notmysql_•37m ago•1 comments

A Practical guide to building a parser in Go

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1•todsacerdoti•38m ago•0 comments

China Urges United States to Release Venezuelan President Maduro

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2•OmShree0709•41m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Model2data – generate realistic synthetic data from data models

https://github.com/JB-Analytica/model2data
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Perp DEXs emerge as crypto's strongest growth story in 2025

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1•AishwaryaTiwari•50m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj0ze8GnBKA
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1•sipofwater•54m ago•2 comments

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MCP for a Coffee Machine... Worked!

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TS/JS Type-safe thread pool multithreading using Web Workers

https://github.com/imramkrishna/thready-js
1•handfuloflight•1h ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/jspchp63/rcircuit-phase-engine
1•jspchp63•1h ago•0 comments

I asked an AI to create "Unhackable Code". It gave me this. I'm scared

2•VOIDMAKINA•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: certgrep – The Certificate Transparency Search Engine

https://certgrep.sh/
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AMD Stole Intel's Future: The Untold x86-64 Story [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyX8TO3awfw
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments