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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 :)

Cory Doctorow says Hugging Face attack was just "a Python loop and a chatbot"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake
1•rototrav•1m ago•0 comments

Freelance Developer Pricing: The Framework That Stops the $11/HR Slide

https://www.misar.blog/@mrgulshanyadav/articles/freelance-developer-pricing-the-framework-that-st...
1•dxs•1m ago•0 comments

AI agent startup Instinct raises $1B Series C at $10B valuation

https://reuters.com/technology/ai-agent-firm-instinct-raises-1-billion-latest-funding-round-2026-...
1•utiiiD•1m ago•0 comments

Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/viral-ai-agent-instinct-raises-1b-series-c-at-a-10b-valuation/
2•htrp•2m ago•0 comments

Education Miracles [pdf]

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Mississippi-MIracle-Galleys-1.pdf
1•Tomte•3m ago•0 comments

Work Diary Victory

https://blog.plover.com/2026/09/22/
2•surprisetalk•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LaunchPact – Get support for your Product Hunt launch

https://www.launchpact.io
1•launchpact_io•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free job-market dashboard – which skills and roles postings ask for

https://nokku.payanai.com/dashboard
1•payanai•5m ago•0 comments

What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion?

https://casp.ac/reports/intelligence-explosion
1•thm•5m ago•0 comments

Partnership and economic drivers of Gambia men with foreign tourists

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10021562/
2•randycupertino•7m ago•0 comments

Resurrecting Midway's Ms Gorf – The Arcade Blogger

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/09/25/resurrecting-midways-ms-gorf/
1•rbanffy•8m ago•0 comments

Age of Invention: Salt Syndicate, Part I

https://www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-invention-salt-syndicate-part
1•Khaine•8m ago•0 comments

Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidias-jensen-huang-ai-distillation-china.html
2•cramer4next•8m ago•1 comments

Debugging HTTP:Tiny Calls Deep Inside Your Stack

https://www.olafalders.com/2026/09/28/debugging-http-tiny-calls-deep-inside-your-stack/
3•oalders•9m ago•0 comments

Nvidia AI Agent Safety Stack

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-security-agent-stack/
2•ketanbj•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Beside.nvim – Live preview in Neovim using leaf, glow or pandoc

https://github.com/mariocesar/beside.nvim
2•mariocesar•9m ago•0 comments

MongoDB CEO resigns "effective immediately" to join Meta, stock drops 20%

https://www.reuters.com/technology/mongodb-ceo-desai-steps-down-lead-metas-enterprise-platform-20...
3•diek•9m ago•1 comments

Bike light hacking: AAA to rechargeable lithium

https://tylerhext.com/posts/bike-light-hacking/
1•posty24•9m ago•1 comments

Nvidia boosts share buyback by record $150B

https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-adds-150-billion-existing-share-repurchase-plan-2026-09-28/
2•TechTechTech•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knotchy – Open untrusted links in a throwaway VM under the notch

https://github.com/aculix/knotchy
2•idris3396•10m ago•0 comments

Unlimited virtual cards for everyone, for free

https://twitter.com/aayan1405/status/2104583630274310231
2•ion05•11m ago•0 comments

Microsoft silent on paying "fair share"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/microsoft-goes-quiet-after-church-groups-ask-for-1-of...
2•SockThief•12m ago•0 comments

Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge told

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/paramount-wbd-merger-conditions-give-the-public-virtu...
2•rbanffy•13m ago•0 comments

Containers Are No Longer a Security Boundary

https://depthfirst.com/research/containers-are-no-longer-safe
2•ibobev•14m ago•0 comments

Leaving Them Behind

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/28/leaving-them-behind/
2•ibobev•14m ago•0 comments

What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators

https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/09/japanese-vs-western-heraldry/
3•bovermyer•15m ago•0 comments

This Special Screw Is Needed for Missiles and Planes. Buying One Can Take Years

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business/ball-screws-military-production.html
2•mykowebhn•15m ago•1 comments

Hunger Stone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
2•chistev•16m ago•0 comments

GPU Glossary

https://modal.com/gpu-glossary
2•ibobev•17m ago•0 comments

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
3•amortize•17m ago•0 comments