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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 :)

University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/university-libraries-ai-data-scraping-bots-9.7408287
1•mattm•4m ago•0 comments

Can Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's Former CEO, Help Fix A.I.'S Gender Problem?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/style/marissa-mayer-ai-assistants-women.html
1•Anon84•7m ago•1 comments

Prisment – Local-first doc workspace (Markdown, OpenAPI, Mermaid)

https://prisment.io/
1•northbit•7m ago•0 comments

Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation

https://www.wsj.com/finance/major-investors-are-skeptical-anthropic-ipo-can-achieve-1-5-trillion-...
4•sandinmyjoints•8m ago•0 comments

Why Americans Stopped Throwing Dinner Parties

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/americans-socialization-dinner-decline-hosting/688846/
2•gmays•8m ago•0 comments

3-minute desk breaks based on Radio Taiso and Wordle

https://www.audioround.com/
1•riscii68•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a game where you have to think of answers others wouldn't give

https://downtheline.io/
1•silverunlim•12m ago•0 comments

It's a lot harder to beat Pangram than I thought

https://gauthamsk.substack.com/p/how-to-use-ai-to-not-sound-like-ai
4•shrike_cultist•14m ago•0 comments

Joe Rogan Experience #2576 – Dr. Peter McCullough [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml1hyhqBEJE
1•Bender•16m ago•0 comments

US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/2118430684079407346
3•kyleblarson•19m ago•0 comments

One Variable: My simple solution to quantum mechanics

https://www.academia.edu/180270436/The_One_Variable_The_Water_Matrix_Lattice_and_the_Double_Slit
1•gramseyho•21m ago•1 comments

This Month in CoMaps: October 2026

https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-10-31/this-month-in-comaps-october-2026/
2•gedankenstuecke•23m ago•0 comments

Why do Japanese use -San at end of names? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eYIHBr9LJio
1•lifeisstillgood•24m ago•0 comments

Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperature-zero-for-culture-why
2•anjel•25m ago•0 comments

Inkling 2 Small

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/
5•Philpax•25m ago•0 comments

New Ways to Read Ebooks

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/plex-but-make-it-books/
2•octavore•28m ago•0 comments

Built this app from scratch come check it out tell me what you think?

https://trumpbot.rip/api/replays/089b5578ed9c709d1457ada82e37d99c0fbc9babadfa9ea1
1•DynamicCreation•31m ago•1 comments

A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization

https://www.nabo.dev/blogs/kernel-primer
1•nomi_uw•37m ago•0 comments

The Non-Classical Cure

1•aarivyn•39m ago•0 comments

One in eight cancers are likely caused by an infection worldwide

https://theconversation.com/one-in-eight-cancers-are-likely-caused-by-an-infection-worldwide-new-...
3•gmays•42m ago•0 comments

Video.js: The Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpka8SYbosg
3•dardarbinks•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLMBrake – Per-customer dollar caps for OpenAI/Anthropic API calls

https://github.com/llmbrake/llmbrake
1•llmbrake•45m ago•0 comments

Bruster – Rust browser automation tool and MCP

https://github.com/aliilyas/bruster
1•aliilyas•47m ago•0 comments

X-ray measurements confirm altermagnetism, a third form of magnetism

https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news3/newsid=70510.php
4•Refreeze5224•48m ago•0 comments

New York Times Company in Advanced Talks to Acquire Letterboxd

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/05/business/letterboxd-new-york-times-company.html
4•coloneltcb•48m ago•0 comments

Algospeak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algospeak
2•aragonite•52m ago•1 comments

Brazilian Credit Guarantor Fund Data Breach Affecting PII and Payout Data

https://www.fgc.org.br/comunicado
3•doodlesdev•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lab Canary – Rating AI labs on whether their staff can speak up

https://labcanary.com/
2•ap11071•54m ago•0 comments

Exo: An Architecture for Self-Improving Systems at Runtime

https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00463
2•matt_d•54m ago•0 comments

How to Train a Swarm

https://www.gr.inc/blog/how-to-train-a-swarm
2•gmays•57m ago•0 comments