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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 :)

Amazon "AGI foundation team" been disbanded

https://twitter.com/yuxin_tang_/status/2080042329583374796
1•embedding-shape•34s ago•0 comments

Unranked, Systemd, Crawls

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_138_systemdocker/
1•birdculture•5m ago•0 comments

Building a voice assistant that works for one specific person

https://blog.vxneo.com/building-a-voice-assistant-that-works-for-one-very-specific-person/
1•jaspanglia•9m ago•0 comments

The Hardest Way to Make a GIF

https://blog.willgrant.org/2026/07/23/the-hardest-way-to-make-gif.html
2•wgx•11m ago•1 comments

EC Fines Google $1B

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/google-eu-fine-search-competition.html
1•sanj•12m ago•0 comments

Accelerated European Summer Warming Driven by Atmospheric Circulation Changes

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL122424
1•admp•15m ago•0 comments

Automating a MongoDB JSON Import and Masked CSV Export

https://visualeaf.com/blog/automate-json-import-mongodb-export-csv-data-masking/
2•serena_wright•15m ago•0 comments

Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/drug-reverses-autism-like-brain-changes-adult-mice-within
2•geox•20m ago•0 comments

Chawan: TUI Web Browser

https://chawan.net/
1•roundabout-host•26m ago•0 comments

FCC planning to retroactively ban disguised DJI gadgets

https://www.theverge.com/news/968310/fcc-dji-drone-camera-ban-skyrover-xtra
3•bookofjoe•29m ago•1 comments

MCP-spec-audit, scan your MCP server for the July 28 spec changes

https://github.com/Temrel/temrel-agentic-toolkit/tree/main/tools/mcp-spec-audit
1•bentemrel•31m ago•0 comments

Senior Python Engineer – AI Agent Evaluation

https://apply.workable.com/toloka-ai/j/07A6121198
1•ValeriaLavren•33m ago•0 comments

Star Axis

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-star-axis-land-art.html
2•tosh•33m ago•0 comments

Ancient Bronze Age shaman long assumed to be a man was a woman

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3•croes•34m ago•0 comments

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3•sach90•34m ago•3 comments

Flare Redact: Stop secrets from reaching logs, telemetry, and LLMs

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1•umudhasanli•34m ago•0 comments

What is missing in today's Go web frameworks?

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1•ethanwinters•35m ago•0 comments

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2•downbad_•37m ago•0 comments

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1•downbad_•37m ago•0 comments

Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems

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2•tarasyarema•38m ago•1 comments

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https://weekendmax.com/
1•cakerace•39m ago•0 comments

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3•martinald•39m ago•1 comments

What Do You Do?

3•alfarez•39m ago•1 comments

A Motorcycle for the Mind

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2•grinkelhoof•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Running PrismML's Bonsai inside DRAM by breaking DDR4 timing rules

2•pcdeni•41m ago•0 comments

Which is the best AI powered platform in 2026?

2•analytifyai•42m ago•0 comments

Inside Ukraine's Kill Zone

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4•giuliomagnifico•43m ago•0 comments

An OpenAI Model Spent an Hour Finding a Sandbox Flaw to Open a Public PR

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1•vincent_s•48m ago•0 comments

EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/23/eu-fines-google-for-competition-breaches-over-...
13•Stevvo•49m ago•3 comments

ButaGYM – An operating system for modern fitness businesses

https://butagym.az
1•bekovra•49m ago•0 comments