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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 :)

Private LLM Inference with Homomorphic Encryption [pdf]

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p4927-lim.pdf
1•vitalnodo•29s ago•0 comments

Who killed the EV cert? A browser whodunit for Halloween

https://qwac.com/blog/who-killed-the-ev-cert
1•roddylindsay•1m ago•0 comments

Volvo Cars swings to third-quarter loss, plans job cuts

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/volvo-cars-swings-third-quarter-loss-plans-job-cuts-2026-10-23/
1•frank_clover•2m ago•0 comments

RMSNorm

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/10/rmsnorm
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People are vibe coding their way to better TVs

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1016116/vibe-coding-tv-os
1•foresto•4m ago•0 comments

Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear

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1•danorama•5m ago•0 comments

Introducing 1Password for Agents

https://1password.com/blog/1password-for-ai-agents
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Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Session Management II

https://www.ruxu.dev/articles/ai/build-an-ai-agent-sessions-2/
1•ruxudev•7m ago•0 comments

Solving Postgres' Count Problem

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/opening-a-closed-tin-part-2
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I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen

https://twitter.com/robbietilton/status/2111936458923851923
2•scrambled•7m ago•0 comments

Why California's $33B Bullet Train Is Now a $231B Problem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPiJKJuQ7i0
2•xnx•9m ago•0 comments

Lower engagement of cognitive control in children on ChatGPT

https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/36/10/bhag167/8869079?login=false
1•geox•10m ago•0 comments

Txoko: Basques' traditional feast a gastronomic peek into a delicious culture

https://johnhendersontravel.com/txoko/
1•jxub•11m ago•0 comments

Gemini-API-CLI: An (experimental) CLI for the Gemini API

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-api-cli
1•xnx•11m ago•0 comments

How we created Chess Game Review: What's a key moment?

https://blog.duolingo.com/engineering-game-review/
1•ziyao_w•12m ago•0 comments

The 'Chi Phi Actives' Group Chat and the Digital Bystander Effect

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1•Tomte•16m ago•0 comments

Affordability or heritage? Singapore's hawker scene faces an identity crisis

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2•Tomte•19m ago•0 comments

Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

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Trump administration sues to block possible Democratic win in Alaska Senate race

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4•ubiquitysc•19m ago•0 comments

The Indian workers filming their work to train AI

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2•nephihaha•21m ago•0 comments

What exactly happened in the LiteLLM attack

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1•csujoy•23m ago•0 comments

Chroma Cloud wind-down timeline

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China's first AI-generated feature film to hit cinemas on Friday

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2•T-A•30m ago•0 comments

Evervault Browser Tokens: Agentic payments on any website

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Do pricier robot vacuums get better reviews? 737 reviews

https://www.bettascore.ai/research/robot-vacuum-prices
2•tsxng•31m ago•0 comments

Better Way to Learn?

https://twitter.com/__marmikpandya/status/2113678337759703293
5•chinmays•32m ago•1 comments

Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?

https://david.lequin.dev/blog/bi-software-is-dead/
10•skadamat•33m ago•1 comments

Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator SQL injection is being actively exploited

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1•acossta•34m ago•0 comments

Twelve years in a tunnel: the story behind Loopfall

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Show HN: Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7)

https://drop7.dev
2•primitivesuave•34m ago•0 comments