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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 :)

White House's export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access

https://www.semafor.com/article/06/13/2026/white-house-move-to-limit-anthropic-linked-to-concerns...
3•shscs911•6m ago•1 comments

Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields

https://sighack.com/post/getting-creative-with-perlin-noise-fields
2•0x000xca0xfe•9m ago•0 comments

Ancient genome duplications laid the foundations of complex brains

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06-09-ancient-genome-duplications-laid-the-foundations-of-complex-...
1•hhs•10m ago•0 comments

The 27 Platform Releases – June 2026

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Updates
1•Austin_Conlon•10m ago•0 comments

Four by Three

https://www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree
1•_tk_•15m ago•0 comments

New research reveals how brains update their predictions

https://source.washu.edu/2026/06/new-research-reveals-how-brains-update-their-predictions/
1•hhs•16m ago•0 comments

LazyOwn RedTeam Framework

https://github.com/grisuno/LazyOwn
1•grisun0•18m ago•1 comments

Derbyshire Police officer accused of using AI to 'create evidence'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8wppwdxl6o
3•healsdata•21m ago•0 comments

Hans Schulz – The father of the VEF Minox lens?

https://moments-of-now.com/hans-schulz-the-father-of-the-vef-minox-riga-lens/
1•throwaway81523•21m ago•0 comments

Wirth's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
1•RinTohsaka•29m ago•0 comments

Designing Software for Software Factories

https://blog.sshh.io/p/designing-software-for-software-factories
1•sshh12•30m ago•0 comments

The Ruby JRuby Was Built to Run

https://intertwingly.net/blog/2026/06/11/The-Ruby-JRuby-Was-Built-to-Run.html
1•mooreds•33m ago•0 comments

Rails: The Sharp Parts. Lock Is Not a Mutex

https://baweaver.com/writing/2026/06/05/rails-sharp-parts-lock-is-not-a-mutex/
1•mooreds•33m ago•0 comments

Timeline of HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChrisArchitect
5•razor-thin•34m ago•0 comments

LLM Token Price Index

https://tokenpriceindex.com
1•zurtri•36m ago•1 comments

Building a Functional Lego Typewriter [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIWTSkCVxjk
1•vinnyglennon•36m ago•0 comments

Battery recycling boom exposes schoolchildren to lead

https://www.ft.com/content/19beeed4-8c99-4de3-a163-9301210634ad
1•petethomas•39m ago•0 comments

VTubeMe

https://vtubeme.com
1•alekcac•40m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Pebble, an open-source alternative to Minecraft: Java Edition

https://github.com/thebriangao/pebble
1•briangao•42m ago•1 comments

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

https://yalereview.org/article/audrey-wollen-david-marx-blank-space
1•tintinnabula•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: How to prevent spam and disposable signups

https://emailverify.se/
1•the_plug•43m ago•1 comments

Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House's Anthropic Fable ban

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949601/amazon-anthropic-fablemythos-governmen...
2•kikibobo69•44m ago•0 comments

W.H. Auden and James Schuyler in life and literature

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/companions-on-parnassus
2•Caiero•50m ago•0 comments

Bubbles.town – posts aggregated from 5007 independent, personal blogs

https://bubbles.town/
2•Curiositry•51m ago•0 comments

Rio 3.5 Open 397B – from Rio de Janeiro's city government

https://huggingface.co/prefeitura-rio/Rio-3.5-Open-397B
3•mcyc•56m ago•2 comments

Frontier: Elite 2 intro (Roland SCC-1) 1993 PC DOS [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzveVFilqMU
1•doener•58m ago•0 comments

Their friends are making $100M. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/13/ipo-boom-mints-thousands-new-millionaires-si...
2•edward•59m ago•4 comments

US orders Anthropic to disable AI models for all foreign nationals

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/13/us-orders-anthropic-to-disable-ai-models-for-all-foreign...
3•untitled-now•1h ago•1 comments

What every coder should know about Gamma Correction

https://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-should-know-about-gamma/
2•sph•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Awsmap – query your AWS inventory with SQL or plain English, offline

https://github.com/TocConsulting/awsmap
1•CloudHackerFr•1h ago•1 comments