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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 :)

Fixes to Windows Phone

http://101fixes.blogspot.com/
1•robertlagrant•13s ago•1 comments

The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/24/treasury-bonds-trump-administration-debt
1•fittingopposite•1m ago•0 comments

Plain Text Accounting

https://plaintextaccounting.org/
1•olexsmir•1m ago•0 comments

The Quantum Computer Microscope

https://physik.univie.ac.at/en/news/news-detail/news/the-quantum-computer-microscope/
1•geox•4m ago•0 comments

Use fewer threads for CPU inference

https://www.nobodywho.ai/posts/threadcounts-for-cpu-inference/
2•bashbjorn•5m ago•0 comments

Vallley – Live Startup Jobs

https://vallley.xyz
1•0x4269•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: BunkerWeb – Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF / WAAP)

https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerweb
2•bnkty•7m ago•1 comments

A .horse by any other name: ICANN's $500M expansion of the DNS namespace

https://i15s.org/essays/a-horse-by-any-other-name/
2•remcovm•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An incremental game about one of Elon's companies

https://a-dark-cave.com/
1•julez_•16m ago•0 comments

We're in a new era of class warfare. Is change still possible?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/opinion/class-warfare-violence.html
3•eternalreturn•18m ago•0 comments

Largest Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer at 98 Qubits

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-global-quantum-big.html
1•smurda•20m ago•0 comments

FDA digital health leader promises generative AI regulatory guidance is coming

https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/24/fda-rick-abramson-generative-ai-guidances-are-coming/
1•brandonb•20m ago•0 comments

Nvidia Is Spending $6B to Build a Powerful Open-Weight Alternative to Chinese AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-is-spending-6-billion-to-build-a-powerful-u-s-alternative-to-c...
1•leumon•21m ago•1 comments

Old Man of the Lake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Lake
1•mistat•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell

3•kaladan•24m ago•1 comments

GTA 6 Dev Asks Court to Subpoena Trove of Records from Microsoft and Discord

https://kotaku.com/take-two-subpoenas-microsoft-and-discord-records-related-to-spread-of-gta-6-le...
3•akyuu•26m ago•1 comments

PNGine: Declarative WebGPU in S-Expressions

https://hugodaniel.com/pages/pngine/
2•sagacity•26m ago•0 comments

A Trillion Times Larger

https://0xsmac.substack.com/p/a-trillion-times-larger
1•tosh•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RPG Enclave – a themed profile card for tabletop RPG players and GMs

https://rpgenclave.com/greg_kegel_gm
1•gregkegel•29m ago•0 comments

Faster than free AI model versions

1•gigisfndr•31m ago•0 comments

Zen-desktop: Desktop ad-blocker for Windows, macOS and Linux

https://github.com/irbis-sh/zen-desktop
2•cassepipe•32m ago•1 comments

Administrative Burdens: Design, Emotional Costs, in Digital Welfare Applications

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padm.70085
1•ano-ther•33m ago•0 comments

Autonomy and Innovation

https://stratechery.com/2026/autonomy-and-innovation/
1•swolpers•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System

https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2026-08-24/vanilla-os-3-reunion---stable-release
2•NN708•35m ago•0 comments

Coding agents need receipts, not fans

https://pran.sh/blog/trust-infrastructure
1•snorlaxmorlax•36m ago•0 comments

Some of Russia's A.I. Drones Are Powered by Nvidia

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/ukraine-war-nvidia-ai-autonomous-drones.html
7•reaperducer•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Clean My Output – Keep correction traces out of ChatGPT/Codex output

https://github.com/Byte-Naut/clean-my-output
1•Byte-Naut•38m ago•0 comments

Kmart Digicam Mod Part 2

https://mason.bearblog.dev/kmart-digicam-mod-part-2/
2•masoniamme•38m ago•0 comments

Turn your video call into Space Invaders

https://callvaders.web.app/
1•thracion•43m ago•0 comments

Hugging Face exploring sale valuing it at $13B, Business Insider says

https://www.reuters.com/business/hugging-face-exploring-sale-valuing-it-13-billion-business-insid...
1•iamflimflam1•44m ago•0 comments