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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 :)

The Utility App Flood Won't Last

https://www.macstories.net/stories/the-utility-app-flood-wont-last/
1•ingve•35s ago•0 comments

There are two kinds of theorems

https://blog.plover.com/math/two-kinds-of-theorems.html
1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kavkash – An Atuin inspired history engine built with stock Linux utils

https://github.com/altunyurt/kavkash
1•altunyurt•3m ago•0 comments

The Anatomy of a Memory Estate

https://medium.com/@majid.fekri/the-anatomy-of-a-memory-estate-567866eae35c
1•supportm•5m ago•0 comments

Delivery drivers to be paid minimum $31.30 an hour in Australia

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/11/delivery-drivers-to-be-paid-minimum-3130-an-hour...
1•teleforce•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kubernetes operator that manages Keycloak configurations

1•soaringmonchi•5m ago•0 comments

The Horse

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ultimate-horse/
1•ortegaygasset•7m ago•0 comments

The Creators of VHS Dates Are Ready to Come Clean

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/arts/vhs-dates-instagram-tapes.html
1•rdmuser•7m ago•1 comments

The Datamaxxers Feeding Their Every Health Move to AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-datamaxxers-feeding-their-every-health-move-to-ai-df0af9b5
1•thm•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city

https://yesterdays.maprva.org/
1•uneekname•8m ago•0 comments

GUI Programming

https://fomenko.fr/devlogs/gui-programming/
1•kooparse•8m ago•0 comments

Google launches Pixel 11 Pro Fold

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/pixel-11-pro-fold/
3•thm•8m ago•0 comments

Startups Need an Asymmetry

https://sunilpai.dev/posts/startups-need-an-asymmetry/
1•tosh•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bough – a coding agent that writes a program per turn, not tool calls

https://github.com/andreylukin/bough
1•alukin•10m ago•0 comments

Twisted Physics: Astronomers Solve 30-Year-Old Stellar Mystery

https://public.nrao.edu/news/twisted-physics-astronomers-solve-30-year-old-stellar-mystery/
1•MarcoDewey•10m ago•0 comments

Psysonic: A full-featured desktop client for Navidrome

https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic
1•ju3rg•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tss – Simple Tailscale Host Selector command-line tool

https://github.com/berggren/tss
1•jbn4711•11m ago•1 comments

Qwen3.8 Weights Release in 10 minutes

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
4•apitman•11m ago•0 comments

We built a job board where the employers aren't human. Here's what broke

1•Taskpoolai•11m ago•1 comments

AI Startup Cognition in New Funding Talks at $40B Value

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-12/ai-startup-cognition-in-new-funding-talks-at-4...
2•closetheloopdev•12m ago•0 comments

Qwen3.8-27B Countdown

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
2•apitman•12m ago•0 comments

The Odyssey as AI Allegory

https://unherd.com/2026/08/the-odyssey-as-an-ai-allegory/
1•voxleone•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kery – comments on your PR with a video of the feature working

https://github.com/Kery-HQ/Kery
1•Kvlshah•15m ago•1 comments

Is GitHub Online?

https://isgithub.online/
2•vednig•16m ago•1 comments

Canadians call for U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra to be expelled

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7303372
6•colinprince•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Capto – alerts when a background job goes quiet, with breadcrumbs

https://capto.run
1•johndory80•16m ago•1 comments

We made Kamal deploy to Kubernetes without touching deploy.yml

https://miget.com/blog/deploy-rails-with-kamal
1•ktaraszk•17m ago•0 comments

Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C

https://usehax.dev/
2•OleksandrC•17m ago•0 comments

License Plate Reader Searches Should Require a Warrant

https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-searches-should-require-a-warrant/
32•apwheele•17m ago•3 comments

StashKit – ez QR code generator

https://stashkit.co
1•adStein•18m ago•0 comments