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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 :)

Researchers Unearth Fossil Evidence of First Marine Amphibian

https://www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity/news/researchers-unearth-fossil-evidence-first-fully-marine-amp...
2•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

Kechup – a simple CLI task tracker for AI agents

https://github.com/erogol/kechup
2•erogol•6m ago•0 comments

Gemini 4 Argon: The Model and Safety Cards

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/10/26/gemini-4-argon-the-model-and-safety-cards/
2•gmays•7m ago•0 comments

Mechy

https://www.mechy.ai/
1•FabianArevalo•7m ago•0 comments

Why Pencils Are Yellow

https://mossandfog.com/why-are-pencils-yellow/
1•bookofjoe•8m ago•0 comments

Anthropic illegally trained Claude with Stanford professors' books

https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/27/professors-books-pirated-to-train-claude/
2•car•9m ago•0 comments

Was She Ever Found?

https://kivuforyou.vercel.app/
1•akinaki•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: City Drones Game

https://citydrones.app/
1•beerglass•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32

https://zebra.rodeo/en/blog/marelleo/
1•foOg•12m ago•0 comments

Hy-Nomas, Tencent's new open-source world model you can steer with text

https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy-Nomas
1•sgiannopoulos•13m ago•0 comments

Amazon's AI-Generated Disney Guidebooks Are Terrible

https://touringplans.com/blog/amazons-ai-generated-disney-guidebooks-are-terrible/
1•gnabgib•13m ago•0 comments

America Needs Canada's Aluminum. Trump's Tariff Exposed Just How Badly

https://www.wsj.com/business/aluminum-tariff-canada-trump-f2555b38
3•Teever•13m ago•0 comments

JetBrains IDEs are now powered by libghostty

https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/10/jetbrains-terminal-now-uses-ghostty/
3•paaloeye•15m ago•1 comments

Agent Sandboxes on a 7GB PC

https://rohanadwankar.github.io/posts/virt
3•RohanAdwankar•15m ago•1 comments

Snowflake built-in tags for credit chargeback by cost center [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_uiXBrgguYc
3•yanivleven•16m ago•0 comments

Leaf PHP: looking back at 740k installs and our crazy AI plan

https://blog.leafphp.dev/posts/740k-installs.html
1•mychi•17m ago•0 comments

Oh Xcode, Please Change

https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/oh-xcode-please-change/
4•surprisetalk•17m ago•0 comments

Firefox 159

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4•andreasha•17m ago•1 comments

Hmg_nemesis, Root for Gen5W Hyundai/Kia

https://github.com/xwtk/hmg_nemesis
1•Volundr•17m ago•0 comments

Stanford Study: Give up AI for a month for $500?

https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publication/what-is-generative-ai-worth/
1•ianand•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: OpenComply, drafts each section of a filing from your documents

https://opencomply.thecompound.tech
1•kyisaiah47•20m ago•0 comments

AI review optimized for recall (catches more defects than Codex or Claude)

https://github.com/quickchatai/quickreview
4•piotrgrudzien•21m ago•1 comments

My video has unit tests

https://pertiller.tech/blog/my-video-written-in-code/
2•Vieltrinker•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Specification First Agentic Development Plugin and Prove

https://spec-first.dev/
3•hleichsenring•25m ago•0 comments

Pullboard 0.9.3: A local-first software factory

https://github.com/pullboard-dev/pullboard
3•Olscore•26m ago•0 comments

NYC's Office-Conversion Projects Are Back After a Big Summer Scare

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/nycs-office-conversion-projects-are-back-after-a-big-s...
1•JumpCrisscross•27m ago•0 comments

Ofcom's Fix for an Online Safety Act That Isn't Working: More Online Safety Act

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/ofcoms-fix-for-an-online-safety-act-that-isnt-working-more-on...
1•hn_acker•27m ago•0 comments

A $300B 'Debt Wall' Is Looming over Private-Equity Backed Companies

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/a-300-billion-debt-wall-is-looming-over-private-equity-back...
2•JumpCrisscross•28m ago•0 comments

Four Justices, One Mega-Publisher, and a Supreme Court Copyright Debacle

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/four-justices-one-mega-publisher-and-a-supreme-cour...
1•hn_acker•28m ago•0 comments

Twelve-year-old wins Australian slam competition prize with poem about ChatGPT

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/26/12-year-old-wins-australian-poetry-slam-chatgpt
1•YeGoblynQueenne•28m ago•0 comments