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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 :)

New Zealand data centre's water consent concerns engineer

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/750158/massive-southland-data-centre-s-water-consent-concerns...
3•billybuckwheat•1m ago•0 comments

GitHub Outage

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9
1•rumblefrog•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where Is Karma Used?

1•haebom•6m ago•1 comments

Average Prototypes

https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/
1•phyzix5761•8m ago•0 comments

6.4x faster than llama.cpp, 3.9x faster than MLX

https://www.basecompute.co/getbasert
2•lukasonedge•13m ago•0 comments

The Anti-Palantir Manifesto

https://nonogra.ph/the-anti-palantir-manifesto-07-20-2026
4•arkhiver•22m ago•0 comments

Website Screen Capture: Recordings Your AI Can Read

https://cbrowser.ai/blog/screen-capture-recordings-your-ai-can-read/
1•alexandriaeden•23m ago•0 comments

History and Scale of the H1B Visa

https://numberstation.fm/the-body-shop/
2•StrageMusik•23m ago•0 comments

The crash that wasn't: debugging CI with AI

https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2026/07/19/the-crash-that-wasnt-debugging-kinjo-ci-with-a...
1•sagevoid•25m ago•0 comments

Open BFME 1

https://github.com/Open-BFME/Open-BFME-1
1•OsrsNeedsf2P•26m ago•0 comments

Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night

https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/why-some-dvla-digital-services-dont-work-at-night/
1•herbertl•27m ago•0 comments

A Painter's New York Loft that he Moved into in 1967 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_u4N08B9U
1•toomuchtodo•30m ago•0 comments

'Live' World Cup Broadcast Is Not Live

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/sports/soccer/world-cup-live-tv-delay.html
1•lxm•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Quartermaster – self-hosted license server with offline signing key

https://github.com/laudendev/quartermaster
1•laudendev•34m ago•0 comments

Epub.js: Enhanced EBooks in the Browser

https://github.com/futurepress/epub.js/
2•gurjeet•37m ago•0 comments

Unvibe Is Here

https://unvibe.live
1•PrestonSusanto•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Headroom – measure your GPU's true bandwidth ceiling for local AI

https://ar5en1c.github.io/headroom/
2•Ar5en1c•42m ago•0 comments

DeKalb deputy charged with Flock camera misuse; more Georgia officers fired

https://www.ajc.com/news/2026/07/3-more-georgia-police-officers-fired-over-alleged-flock-camera-m...
38•pir8life4me•45m ago•16 comments

I've Struggled with Addiction. I'm Staying Away from A.I. Chatbots

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/opinion/ai-attention-social-media-attachment.html
1•geox•47m ago•0 comments

The SLAP stack is the last server stack you'll ever need

https://blakewatson.com/journal/the-slap-stack-is-the-last-server-stack-youll-ever-need/
1•blakewatson•48m ago•0 comments

Production Deployments to Exe.dev

https://asadjb.com/blog/2026-07-19-production-deployments-to-exe-dev
1•asadjb•52m ago•0 comments

Flock cameras collecting face, clothing,tattoo identifiers

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2•pir8life4me•53m ago•3 comments

Freeze-Casting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze-casting
1•soupspaces•54m ago•0 comments

PEP 829 – Package Startup Configuration Files

https://peps.python.org/pep-0829/
1•zahlman•55m ago•1 comments

Connection Machine Joins All to All to Optimize Better

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ising-machine
1•andsoitis•57m ago•0 comments

Reviving a 1996 IRC network from its own original, recovered source code

https://chatnet.gg/
3•casoalb•58m ago•0 comments

We Can't Harden Node.js Against Prototype Pollution

https://adventures.nodeland.dev/archive/no-we-cant-harden-nodejs-against-prototype/
1•Fudgel•1h ago•0 comments

Why Your Dashboard Is Lying to You (and What Works)

https://medium.com/@alanscottencinas/why-your-dashboard-is-lying-to-you-and-what-actually-works-d...
1•encinas88•1h ago•0 comments

Email Encryption

https://computer.rip/2026-07-19-email-encryption.html
2•zdw•1h ago•0 comments

Prompt Bill of Materials (PBOM) – an open standard for agentic workflows

https://github.com/EqoAI/pbom-spec
2•kavia•1h ago•0 comments