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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 :)

Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/ibm-604-thyraton-tube-module.html
1•elpocko•2m ago•0 comments

Cherry Powder as a Natural Antioxidant for Ready-to-Eat Beef Patties

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/15/9/1483
1•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

Fukushima, Japan faces "intelligent" bear

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/05/bear-attacked-four-people-japan-missing-at-large
1•doctor_radium•3m ago•0 comments

fastai: style

https://docs.fast.ai/dev/style.html
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

A Mote in AI

https://mvcalder-01701.medium.com/a-mote-in-ai-8c544becc958
1•mvcalder•5m ago•0 comments

Automating my job away

https://austinhenley.com/blog/automatingmyjob.html
1•azhenley•8m ago•0 comments

"Survivor" winners need a raise

https://thehustle.co/newsletters/22-04-2026
1•paulpauper•9m ago•0 comments

The purpose of a system is what it does

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does
1•mooreds•9m ago•1 comments

You Can and Should Blame Young People When They Act Like Lazy Cheaters

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-can-and-should-blame-young-people
1•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

The Philosophy of the Out-of-Office Email

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/06/out-of-office-email-vacation/687462/
1•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

Wispr-Flow-Linux – Wispr Flow via Apt, DNF, AUR, AppImage, or Nix Flake

https://github.com/wispr-flow-linux/wispr-flow-linux
1•aaddrick•11m ago•1 comments

Why Doing More Keeps You Stuck

https://letters.unchartedpathbreakthroughs.com/posts/why-doing-more-keeps-you-stuck
1•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

Meta's Giant AI Data Center Is Reshaping Rural Louisiana

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-meta-facebook-ai-data-center-louisiana/
1•mooreds•13m ago•1 comments

Best Red-Light Therapy for Hair Restoration and Regrowth (2026)

https://www.wired.com/story/best-red-light-therapy-for-hair-growth/
1•joozio•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What happened to the guy that invented LLMs?

1•yesitcan•17m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Baseball version of the popular 82-0 game

https://statgm.com/
1•rcar1046•18m ago•0 comments

DeadMRR – Acquisition-Ready SaaS Database

https://deadmrr.netlify.app
1•JimCharles•18m ago•0 comments

Conversation in the Womb – A Parable of Life After Delivery

https://growforhumans.co.uk/uncategorized/conversation-womb-parable-life-delivery/
1•vickychijwani•18m ago•0 comments

An introduction to functional analysis for science and engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02539
2•Anon84•19m ago•0 comments

The golden era of K-pop

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4EOmTlEROIU9hz6EbkBxAx
2•mrhappypappy•22m ago•0 comments

Softmax: Why neural networks need non-linearity? life isn't straight-line simple

https://blog.sparsh.dev/softmax-activation-function/
2•sparshrestha•23m ago•1 comments

The J Programming Language (2014)

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/j-language/
4•tosh•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A 178K Neural Net that beats Pokémon Roguelike

https://thiagolira.blot.im/i-got-so-mad-at-poke-rogue-like-that-i-trained-a-rl-agent-to-beat-it-f...
3•farcaster•27m ago•0 comments

Myanmar's civil war is escalating fast. Here's what's happening

https://respublicamgz.substack.com/p/myanmars-civil-war-is-escalating
2•ResPublica•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AgentCrew – a Markdown-first operating system for AI coding agents

https://github.com/mlguyYT/AgentCrew
3•mhjafari92•30m ago•0 comments

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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/community-ninja-signals/id6776220645
2•shashanoid•31m ago•0 comments

Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

https://apnews.com/article/repair-cafes-economy-anticonsumerism-affordability-buy-nothing-d3acac3...
2•rolph•32m ago•1 comments

Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/in-1999-this-was-a-federal-crime
24•akkartik•32m ago•23 comments

Personal Email Salons (1997)

https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/personalesalons.html
1•greyface-•33m ago•0 comments

I Gave ChatGPT a Body [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S67z2aekBrI
2•lisper•33m ago•0 comments