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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 :)

Paramount to Leave CA If States Refuse to Negotiate Settlement in Antitrust Suit

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/david-ellison-move-paramount-out-of-california-states-antitrus...
1•indigodaddy•1m ago•0 comments

Cursor and SpaceXAI launch Grok Bot for work beyond coding

https://runtimewire.com/article/cursor-spacexai-launch-grok-bot-general-purpose-agents
1•ryanmerket•1m ago•0 comments

How we control a remote browser with a Chrome extension faster than Playwright

https://www.browserbase.com/blog/stagehand-v4
1•Kylejeong21•1m ago•0 comments

Something Nobody Told You About the Image Element (It Can Overflow)

https://master.dev/blog/something-nobody-told-you-about-the-image-element-it-can-overflow/
2•ibobev•4m ago•0 comments

CSS Properties You Should Know for Better Text Designs

https://master.dev/blog/typographic-css-tricks/
1•ibobev•4m ago•0 comments

View Transitions: Careful Not to Make Stuff Unclickable

https://master.dev/blog/view-transitions-careful-not-to-make-stuff-unclickable/
1•ibobev•5m ago•0 comments

Nigeria: Lifting the Lid: Internal docs expose Shell's negligent oil operations

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr44/1304/2026/en/
1•RetroTechie•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Zsort, a fast import organizer for Zig

https://github.com/mstdokumaci/zsort
1•mstdokumaci•6m ago•0 comments

Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)

https://franceshocutt.com/2014/09/10/on-mourning-and-moving-on-rituals-for-leaving-a-career/
1•downbad_•6m ago•0 comments

Signing and verifying AI outputs with revocable trust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OF1gS5jn3w
1•lyfeninja•6m ago•0 comments

Don't Lock User Data Behind Paywalls

https://onlinegoddess.net/2026/08/dont-lock-user-data-behind-paywalls/
1•speckx•6m ago•0 comments

Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think (2023)

https://commoncog.com/goodharts-law-not-useful/
1•downbad_•6m ago•0 comments

Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact [pdf]

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/uzzi/htm/papers/science-2013-uzzi-468-72.pdf
1•highfrequency•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I used AI to filter AI content from HN

https://www.unslop.news
1•otherayden•7m ago•0 comments

We didn't kill physical media. You did

https://vladthe.dev/blog/we-didn-t-kill-physical-media-you-did
1•pacMakaveli•8m ago•0 comments

Why Americans fear getting old

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/america-cant-afford-to-retire-4478290
1•robtherobber•8m ago•0 comments

Ads may be leaving the windows search box

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/07/13/improving-windows-search-box-with-less-clutt...
1•sklargh•8m ago•0 comments

A Herbal Product Sold at Gas Stations Is Being Blamed for an Addiction Crisis

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1•thm•8m ago•0 comments

Make everything look like a software project

https://excamera.substack.com/p/make-everything-look-like-a-software
1•jamesbowman•8m ago•0 comments

Marc Andreessen on How Michael Ovitz and CAA Took over Hollywood

https://twitter.com/davidsenra/status/2086978352880209932
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What happens between clicking Apply and a recruiter seeing your resume

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2•andrewstetsenko•9m ago•0 comments

SendtoWin, a cold-email infra company, lands top 6% of fastest-growing US firms

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1•SantiDev•10m ago•0 comments

Verifrog – a Verilog/SystemVerilog testing framework an AI agent can drive

https://github.com/bryancostanich/verifrog
2•bryancostanich•12m ago•0 comments

Open source resume builder that refuses to lie for you

https://github.com/jananthan30/Resume-Builder
1•jananthan30•13m ago•0 comments

Learn A.I. Basics

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcG_dNoR8D_W5D38xMsE_ag
1•jeffjbowie2•14m ago•0 comments

Mojo 1.0 Release

https://mojolang.org/releases/v1.0.0/
2•melodyogonna•15m ago•0 comments

Dearly Beloved Dingo

https://archaeology.org/issues/online/digs-discoveries/dearly-beloved-dingo/
1•NoRagrets•15m ago•0 comments

AI Changes the Economics of JIT Compilers

https://malisper.me/how-ai-changes-the-economics-of-jit-compilers/
1•poly2it•16m ago•0 comments

Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch

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3•cdrnsf•17m ago•2 comments

Automatic Key Verification

https://signal.org/blog/automatic-key-verification/
2•meetpateltech•19m ago•0 comments