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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 :)

British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled

https://liveandletsfly.com/british-airways-meta-smart-glasses-filming/
1•bookofjoe•37s ago•0 comments

Data Centers Are Turning Trump Voters into Democrats

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/10/12/data-centres-are-turning-trump-voters-into-de...
2•karakoram•1m ago•1 comments

EPA backtracks on claims US has phased out toxic PFAS compounds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/18/epa-pfas-compounds-toxins
2•howard941•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: IP Lookup API

https://companyofcraft.com/ip-lookup
1•vaibhavacharya•6m ago•0 comments

What the heck is /pkg?

https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/18/what-the-heck-is-pkg
1•GavinAnderegg•6m ago•0 comments

Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/15/1145819/six-wild-ideas-perpetuating-your-mind-cogniti...
1•joozio•7m ago•0 comments

Mitos editor is a fork of Helix

https://mitos.computer/
2•ambigious7777•8m ago•1 comments

The Last Skeuomorph in iOS?

https://www.jarrettfuller.blog/2026/09/camera-shutter-skeuomorph/
1•karakoram•8m ago•2 comments

AI Is the Uber Moment for Mathematics

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/09/27/ai-is-the-uber-moment-for-mathematics/
1•paulpauper•9m ago•0 comments

Men Can't Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI

https://www.wired.com/story/men-cant-stop-faking-how-much-they-know-about-ai/
2•ceejayoz•13m ago•0 comments

Creating and Rendering a Bitmap Font

https://www.alexghr.me/blog/custom-bitmap-font/
1•alexghr•13m ago•0 comments

Whac-a-Mole: The Arcade Classic in Motion

https://www.nexplayground.com/games/whac-a-mole-on-nex-playground
1•eustoria•15m ago•0 comments

Envoy Admin – a real-time terminal UI for the Envoy admin API

https://github.com/regeda/envoyadmin
1•regeda•15m ago•0 comments

Artifacts Driven Development

https://kosuke.ai/blog/manifesto
1•filopedraz•16m ago•0 comments

Bullshit Jobs: David Graeber's Anthropology of Meaningless Work

https://www.polscience.co.in/2026/09/bullshit-jobs-david-graebers.html
1•eustoria•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: CLI for your financial data (and Costco and Amazon)

https://kilianc.github.io/fin/
2•kilianciuffolo•16m ago•0 comments

AI won't kill jobs. Bad team design will

https://www.cio.com/article/4236023/ai-wont-kill-jobs-bad-team-design-will.html
1•eustoria•17m ago•0 comments

A California town's beaches are washing away. Can its residents turn the tide?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/18/california-beach-erosion-san-clemente
1•howard941•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turbo Flow v5.2

https://www.turboflow.online/
1•marcuspat•18m ago•0 comments

Polish decision model basal-Omni ranks #1 open-weight on JevBench

https://basal.si5.pl/en/
2•zaiste•20m ago•0 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash TensorFold Pipeline and Converter

https://github.com/yeabat8tcap/glm-5.3-flash-tensorfold
1•Yeabu369•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Chest – a tiny, open-source menu bar manager for macOS 27

https://chest.boringbar.app/
3•a-ve•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ThinkBoard – Summon an Obsidian canvas above your desktop with a hotkey

https://github.com/vestigecounty/thinkboard
1•sev_verso•29m ago•0 comments

Doorman Fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Sutherland_(advertising_executive)
2•CharlesW•31m ago•0 comments

Spring Flight

https://fabulistmagazine.com/spring-flight/
1•jruohonen•31m ago•0 comments

Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_doma...
5•sashk•31m ago•1 comments

Agentic Scientist, Orchestrator for Automated Scientific (Co-)Discovery

https://github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scientist-v3
1•merqurio•31m ago•0 comments

A reusable agent skill for auditing and rewriting website copy

https://github.com/wvvb/website-coprighting
1•ryzmdotdev•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Find your film roots by analyzing your Letterboxd data

https://cinetrii.com/roots
1•everling•34m ago•0 comments

Ghidra and CBMC = Assembly Model Checker

https://www.philipzucker.com/asmc_cpp/
2•philzook•34m ago•0 comments