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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 :)

Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, by Donald E. Knuth

https://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2011-04/things-computer-scientist-rarely-talks-about-don...
1•senor_digimon•1m ago•1 comments

Yomif Kejelcha regains world half marathon record with 56:51 in Buenos Aires

https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-label-road-races/news/world-half-marathon...
1•wslh•2m ago•0 comments

Go Ahead, Sean Duffy. Let Your Daughter Go to Harvard

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/opinion/harvard-education-ideology-political-polarization.html
1•berkeleyjunk•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rmp, a Subsonic music player for generating playlists on the fly

https://github.com/codesoap/rmp
1•codesoap•5m ago•0 comments

AwardMath – Award Travel Planner

https://awardmath.com
1•info-cast-hub•5m ago•0 comments

Soofi S 31.6B. German Open Moe Explained

https://kie.ai/blog/what-is-soofi-s-31-6b
1•pelasaco•7m ago•0 comments

Vibedecode

https://vibe-decode.com/
1•implexlabs•8m ago•1 comments

There is now over 2,100 hours of video evidence on Archive Genocide

https://archivegenocide.com/
2•34679•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT a privacy risk?

https://twitter.com/stevemoraco/status/2091194172917338520
1•taubek•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What a fullstack dev should know about security?

1•ah1508•10m ago•0 comments

All Your Heroes Were on Drugs

https://medium.com/belover/all-your-heroes-were-on-drugs-b1eafd9adf50
1•andsoitis•10m ago•0 comments

The rise and fall of rationality in language (2021)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107848118
2•mpweiher•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ever Wanted to Call Codex from Claude Code? My Harness Orchestrator

https://github.com/ptmrio/harness-subagent
2•SPQRK•14m ago•0 comments

Trump administration's 75-country visa ban was illegal, judge rules

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/22/nx-s1-5941765/trump-immigration-visa-ban-75-countries
4•garbawarb•18m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT Is a Japanese Internet Degen

https://theosteiner.de/chatgpt-is-a-japanese-degen-or-how-fried-chicken-sent-me-down-a-tokenizer-...
3•theo-steiner•19m ago•0 comments

My Contaminated Smile (<2003)

https://web.archive.org/web/20101126175812/http://www.mouthmag.com/issues/58/contam_smile.htm
2•verisimi•21m ago•0 comments

There's no substitute for real-world experience

https://mattcasmith.net/2026/08/23/no-substitute-real-world-experience
2•mattcasmith•23m ago•1 comments

The Bay Area's 'city of the dead'

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/bay-area-colma-cemeteries-22364598.php
3•gmays•23m ago•0 comments

Personal care products are awash in unlabeled toxic chemicals, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/23/personal-care-products-unlabeled-toxic-chemicals
2•pseudolus•24m ago•0 comments

The Interview That Wouldn't Die

https://returnzero.dev/articles/coding-interviews-in-the-age-of-ai
1•rotemmiz•27m ago•1 comments

Together – Community mental health support through shared therapeutic silence

https://together.lyfmail.com/
1•LYFMail•28m ago•0 comments

Claude is your insider threat now [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJYw2gR0cU
1•soupspaces•33m ago•0 comments

Product Owner Interview Questions for the Age of AI

https://age-of-product.com/product-owner-interview-questions/
1•swolpers•34m ago•0 comments

Prompt Sufficiency: A Missive for the Managerial Class

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jDHc4oK4oPwfh6TcK/prompt-sufficiency-a-missive-for-the-managerial...
1•kp1197•34m ago•0 comments

Strange people, but very smart (Bell Labs Culture)

https://voiceinthemachine.com/2026/08/20/strange-people-but-very-smart/
1•brandonb•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Histiq – Local semantic search for the browser history and PDFs

https://histiq.com/
3•histiq•35m ago•0 comments

Do LLM quants impact as much as we think?

https://rakuensoftware.com/blog/which-quant-beats-how-many-bits
1•jbailes•40m ago•1 comments

Prism Reviewer – Multi-agent AI code reviewer built with LangGraph and LiteLLM

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/prism-reviewer-ai
1•aravinthan-n•43m ago•0 comments

Free global board for favourite products and shops

https://shopat.lol
1•affixio•44m ago•0 comments

Vorssaint – One menu bar icon doing the job of a dozen paid Mac apps

https://github.com/vorssaint/vorssaint-utils
1•drapado•46m ago•0 comments