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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 :)

Shared Memory Consistency from Scratch Part 1: Causality

https://allthoughts.me/blog/shared-memory-consistency-from-scratch-part1/
1•mmozeiko•46s ago•0 comments

Releasing Execution Contexts in Crystal

https://crystal-lang.org/2026/07/12/releasing-execution-contexts/
1•TheWiggles•2m ago•0 comments

What would the last software engineer still need to do?

https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/the-last-software-engineer-knows-what-to-build
1•Bluestein•2m ago•0 comments

Am I missing something? Is programatically sending SMS globally this bad?

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9bcd2b-ab9c-83ec-8f26-26a2c85f2ca8
1•nomilk•3m ago•0 comments

How I made Rustdoc 33% faster in one week

https://noahlev.org/blog/2026/08/27/making-rustdoc-faster/
1•birdculture•9m ago•0 comments

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems
1•sylvainkalache•17m ago•0 comments

Phaseone[big] explains why you should trust OpenAI

https://twitter.com/transitive_bs/status/2096134662246855089
1•transitivebs•19m ago•1 comments

Another Heart Drug Fails, Surprising Cardiologists

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/science/heart-drug-fails-novartis-pelacarsen.html
2•brandonb•23m ago•0 comments

How the Shell Works [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV3_XZXeDQo
1•vismit2000•24m ago•0 comments

I wrote a VM for Mac to run Windows and Linux, both on iOS

https://github.com/theghostshinobi/SMOKE
2•ghostshinobi•36m ago•0 comments

From Pig to Patient: A First-in-Human Kidney Xenotransplant Bridge

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)01295-X/abstract
1•signa11•37m ago•0 comments

Sugar Reset ReviEwS (2026): We Tried It My Honest Review

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1•gayzsahy•39m ago•0 comments

Bun v1.4.2

https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4.2
1•ErenayDev•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ForgeGuardian – Open-source software supply-chain security scanner

https://github.com/Mah3Sec/ForgeGuardian
1•mahi1337•41m ago•0 comments

'coarse – AI peer review, of course (MIT license)

https://coarse.ink/
1•idw•42m ago•1 comments

OpenROAD: Open-source toolchain for Chip Design

https://openroad.org
1•firefoxd•47m ago•0 comments

Important MikroTik RouterOS security update

https://forum.mikrotik.com/t/important-security-update/272851
1•ricardbejarano•48m ago•0 comments

UN approves new world map [video]

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1•gurjeet•50m ago•0 comments

SilentPatch 2026 Update

https://silentsblog.com/2026/07/31/silentpatch-2026-update/
1•toilet•55m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel

2•coderinsan•57m ago•0 comments

Bespoke: A Programming Language for People Who Say Please

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3•Naru1974•58m ago•0 comments

Global Existing Smartphone Prices Climb About 15% in 2026

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1•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•0 comments

Kate's Software Laws

https://metamagic.substack.com/p/software-laws
1•r0ze-at-hn•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: UltraCPP--the third-party son of CPP&rust on the brink of death

https://github.com/juntz-g1thub/UltraCpp
1•juntz•1h ago•1 comments

ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/04/ascii-smuggling-isnt-just-an-ai-security-risk/529...
1•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments

Insulting Agents Considered Harmful

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w7me8l/insulting_agents_considered_harmful/
2•fragsworth•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/openai-agents-discussed-ways-to-escape-their-sandbox-on-...
4•joozio•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Wrote a WAF in Rust with Pingora

https://github.com/theghostshinobi/shibuya
1•ghostshinobi•1h ago•0 comments

Should you avoid blue light before bed?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/04/should-you-avoid-blue-light-before-bed
3•vinni2•1h ago•3 comments

The Origin of Circuits (2007)

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
1•mschuster91•1h ago•1 comments