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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 :)

The Data Center Backlash Bursts into the Midterms

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/politics/data-centers-midterm-elections.html
3•newsomix9xl•4m ago•0 comments

Across Nashville, Parked Waymos Are Recording Your Neighborhood

https://www.gadgetreview.com/across-nashville-parked-waymos-are-recording-your-neighborhood
2•HotGarbage•5m ago•0 comments

An elliptic curve of rank 31

https://twitter.com/mathandcobb/status/2091618274320552349
3•vicgalle_•9m ago•1 comments

Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/good-and-bad-reasons-to-become-an-entrepreneur-decf0766de8d
1•BASSAMej•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Photo Gallery Without JavaScript

https://ricobeck.de/photostream.html
2•ricobecks•14m ago•0 comments

The VLA and High-Frequency SETI: Expanding the Search for Life

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18275
1•root-parent•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN:Tool that checks if your AI-generated content are marked AI Act Art. 50

https://aiactverify.edenlabs.eu
1•lucapersichini•21m ago•0 comments

Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings

https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/08/23/how-cursor-beat-gits-scalability-shortcomings/5291421
2•sbulaev•23m ago•0 comments

Optimizing memory use in a Markdown parser

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/a-n8wf/optimizing-memory-use-in-markdown-parser.html
2•blueshoess•28m ago•0 comments

Wallpaper Engine On Linux (native translation layer library)

https://github.com/shdwmtr/wallpiper
1•shadowmonster•31m ago•0 comments

Leyline: KV Cache Directives for Agentic Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01065
3•Bluestein•34m ago•0 comments

Cicada.os – Graphene.os for Your Laptop

https://kpres12.github.io/Cicada.OS/
1•kpres62•35m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A way to let agents reliably pay for things

https://shopstack.ai/
1•windyVector•38m ago•0 comments

IXUI: A Proxmox/ESXi-Style Web UI for Incus

https://github.com/xlmnxp/ixui
1•xlmnxp•40m ago•0 comments

Residential proxies scraping your site? Drain their bandwidth

https://layer3intel.com/blog/residential-proxy-bandwidth-drain
3•Rasbora•40m ago•0 comments

The Summer of Open Weights

https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-summer-of-open-weights/
2•garo-pro•42m ago•0 comments

Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions

https://hugodaniel.com/posts/declarative-webgpu-with-s-expressions/
2•hugodan•43m ago•0 comments

Bolt Graphics' Advanced GPU to Take on Nvidia – Architosh

https://architosh.com/2026/07/bolt-graphics-advanced-gpu-to-take-on-nvidia/
2•rbanffy•46m ago•0 comments

Ask (Your Terminal)

https://github.com/benja/ask
1•handfuloflight•47m ago•0 comments

Nss-userhosts: a name service switch module allowing unprivileged users to have

https://codeberg.org/felixs/nss-userhosts
1•fanf2•48m ago•0 comments

Making LEDs in the Home Fab

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/making-leds-in-the-home-fab/
1•rmason•51m ago•0 comments

Does Chess Make You Smarter? What Chess Can Teach Us

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-a-new-home/202608/does-chess-make-you-smarter-wha...
2•amichail•52m ago•0 comments

Slash Pages

https://slashpages.net/
1•jcbhmr•52m ago•0 comments

Paul Graham on X: if I were 17. I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2091544343589060625
3•bilsbie•52m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Khaos – Kafka traffic and failure simulator, rewritten in Go

https://github.com/aleksandarskrbic/khaos
1•skrbic_a•53m ago•0 comments

Cybernetics and Ghosts

https://robinrendle.com/notes/cybernetics-and-ghosts/
1•robin_reala•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Clothes Patterns You Can Make Based on Photo

https://github.com/Ag3497120/photoloset
1•pakupaku•55m ago•0 comments

Engineerification

https://eug.github.io/posts/engineerification.html
1•eugf_•57m ago•0 comments

OpenStar demonstrates dipole fusion reactor concept

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/openstar-demonstrates-dipole-fusion-reactor-concept
2•mpweiher•59m ago•0 comments

Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/this-rural-village-in-spain-is-welcoming-digital-nomads-with-ope...
2•simonebrunozzi•1h ago•1 comments