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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 :)

Claude Status – Degraded Performance for Claude Opus 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5

https://status.claude.com/incidents/hkcw95k7r0f4
1•kyisaiah47•41s ago•0 comments

Quanta.Ai.Code.Editor

https://github.com/ContegoCode/Quanta-Code-Editor
1•Quantaai•16m ago•3 comments

Show HN: NodeAkt – Zero-dependency distributed actor framework for TypeScript

https://tochemey.github.io/nodeakt/
2•Tochemey•24m ago•0 comments

Long March 6C rocket stage fragments in orbit, creating cloud of debris

https://spacenews.com/long-march-6c-rocket-stage-fragments-in-orbit-creating-cloud-of-debris/
3•bookmtn•25m ago•0 comments

Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

https://www.vectorian.be/articles/2026-06-07/sumerian-king-list-paleoclimate-alignment-explorer/
5•dev_l1x_be•26m ago•0 comments

I spent years running prod-like homelabs. Here's what I learned about securing

https://www.amazon.ca/Homelab-Security-Blueprint-Building-Production-Grade-ebook/dp/B0GX2WLP51
1•sargetun•29m ago•0 comments

Does Computer Science Need Computers?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-computer-science-need-computers-20260828/
2•pykello•30m ago•0 comments

PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry

https://www.rascal.news/ppwr-lands-another-blow-to-an-already-precarious-tabletop-industry/
2•healsdata•31m ago•0 comments

9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight

https://azmirror.com/2026/08/28/9th-circuit-sides-with-states-in-kalshi-gambling-fight-potentiall...
2•hungryhobbit•39m ago•1 comments

Anthropic Just Beat The Pentagon in Court

https://www.ibtimes.com/anthropic-just-beat-pentagon-court-judge-said-national-security-was-used-...
10•01-_-•40m ago•0 comments

Young adults under 21 traded $5B on Kalshi this year

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/business/young-adults-trading-kalshi
4•01-_-•42m ago•2 comments

Steps Towards an Ecology of the Internet

https://anil.recoil.org/slides/2025-internet-ecology.html
1•luispa•42m ago•1 comments

X reveals foreign adversary behind fake accounts disseminating anti-data center

https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-tech/x-reveals-foreign-adversary-behind-fake-accounts-dissem...
3•newsomix9xl•43m ago•2 comments

Roundup of September 2026 Bootstrapper Events

https://bootstrappersbreakfast.com/2026/08/27/roundup-of-september-2026-bootstrapper-events/
1•skmurphy•44m ago•1 comments

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/
2•matt_d•44m ago•1 comments

Zero-Cost 'Tagless Final' in Rust with GADT-Style Enums

https://inferara.com/blog/rust-tagless-final-gadt/
1•birdculture•45m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL system catalog changes across versions

https://richyen.com/pg-catalog-almanac/
1•qianli_cs•50m ago•0 comments

LuaDB – A pure Lua RDBMS engine with B+Trees, WAL, and Postgres wire proto

https://github.com/jncastilho/luadb
1•COLD_WAR•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Substack and X and Reddit and Crypto = POW

https://www.proofofwriting.com/
1•caincurrency•53m ago•0 comments

The invisible labour behind 'intelligent' machines

https://theloop.ecpr.eu/the-invisible-labour-behind-intelligent-machines/
1•cdrnsf•54m ago•0 comments

Prop trading firms – the alternative and the reality

https://forexmechanics.com/choosing-broker/prop-trading/
1•wazka•55m ago•1 comments

Shortlinks

https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/8/28/shortlinks
1•classictraffic•56m ago•0 comments

Bigscreen Beyond 2 – the smallest VR headset

https://bigscreenvr.com/
1•bpierre•56m ago•0 comments

Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer

https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/28/now-hiring-senior-open-source-maintainer.html
1•metrofun•56m ago•0 comments

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Gallery

https://www.dogsplayingpoker.org/gallery/coolidge/
2•billwirn•59m ago•0 comments

Xylitol linked to strokes and heart attacks

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/28/sweetener-xylitol-used-in-chewing-gum-and-jam-lin...
4•yonibot•1h ago•1 comments

The Pure Python Breakthrough: How Blazeio Shatters the Compiled Language Dogma

https://medium.com/@bf_69202/the-pure-python-breakthrough-how-blazeio-shatters-the-compiled-langu...
1•anonyxbiz•1h ago•0 comments

Zig – Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27
2•Retro_Dev•1h ago•0 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli
21•hentrep•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Darwin-VM – run the latest iOS and macOS in QEMU

https://github.com/jprx/darwin-vm
1•jprx•1h ago•0 comments