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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 :)

Extended interview: Dario Amodei [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQR_VJF6ukk
1•handfuloflight•1m ago•0 comments

State of Pandemic Early Warning

https://www.jefftk.com/p/state-of-pandemic-early-warning
1•luu•4m ago•0 comments

Blast from Past: Nokia Presentation "Apple iPhone Was Launched"

https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_926740c7-5165-439a-a020-5205aeb4d4d5/
1•signa11•4m ago•0 comments

The AI Pascal's Wager

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html
1•bertman•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Miniagent – Free coding agent, no installation required

https://miniagent.sh
1•mikesoylu•7m ago•0 comments

Online gaming companies investigated over in-game purchases

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/1001/1593563-gaming-companies/
1•austinallegro•11m ago•0 comments

Should AI Be Open? (2015)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/
1•Areibman•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated UI components you can preview and install in one command

https://podie.dev
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Archestra-AI/OpenAPPA: Deterministic guardrails that don't break agents

https://github.com/archestra-ai/OpenAPPA
1•wise_blood•16m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODDJXGY_1kQ
1•DrSiemer•17m ago•0 comments

Taylor mode automatic differentiation (jets) in PyTorch

https://github.com/f-dangel/torch-jet
1•measurablefunc•18m ago•0 comments

A concrete explanation of how the internet works

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/36.html
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https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html
2•signa11•28m ago•0 comments

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2•javeq34•29m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg5MeWTT5Zw
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2•zenincognito•39m ago•0 comments

6.2ns TCP/UDP IP Processing

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Professional authority gave way to fragmentation and chronic failure

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Google, Apple and Amazon each meet EU officials more than any EU company

https://www.ft.com/content/817f40f7-d4ac-43ee-beaf-12cfac08c621
4•snikolaev•45m ago•2 comments

Roofline analysis of Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel stencil kernels in Fortran

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1•loiseaujc•51m ago•0 comments

Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes

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40•orphereus•51m ago•45 comments

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https://www.simplegantt.net
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Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information – Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11036-y
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2•bryanrasmussen•55m ago•0 comments

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3•nsagent•57m ago•1 comments

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2•50kIters•59m ago•1 comments

The Life of Antony

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Antony%2A.html?
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments