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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 :)

Pipeline Parallelism is here: 8x faster than Apple's WWDC26 fine-tuning

https://nuketorch.ai/blog/pipeline-parallelism-is-here/
1•klay_moon•1m ago•0 comments

Discourse (forums) sees itself well positioned for the AI search era (vs Reddit)

https://blog.discourse.org/2026/11/reddit-vs-discourse-a-tale-of-two-incentive-models/
1•Scaled•2m ago•1 comments

Smartphone Camera Could Get a Big Upgrade with This Tech

https://www.wired.com/story/your-smartphone-camera-could-get-a-big-upgrade-with-this-tech/
1•anfractuosity•3m ago•0 comments

IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-11-11-ibm-quantum-nighthawk-demonstrates-new-levels-of-speed-and-qu...
2•gok•3m ago•0 comments

Nvidia releases Alpamayo 2 edge weights (local AV reasoning)

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/running-av-reasoning-models-within-onboard-compute-and-latency-...
1•sshah03•4m ago•0 comments

Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery (2017)

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html
1•germanrabbit•5m ago•0 comments

The answer to AI is engineering

https://ghuntley.com/answer/
2•ghuntley•6m ago•0 comments

The Utah Teapot

https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
1•cobbal•6m ago•0 comments

Who Is It, Eliza?

https://syntheticauth.ai/posts/who-is-it-eliza
1•zerolayers•7m ago•0 comments

Agents Everywhere: The Flow of Information

https://negativestarinnovators.com/blog/agents-everywhere-the-flow-of-information
1•pizzly•8m ago•0 comments

AliExpress 11.11 sales are mostly bogus

https://minipcs.zip/aliexpress-11-11-pricing-tricks/
1•yathern•8m ago•1 comments

Artificial Life Simulator ALIEN 5.0-beta

https://github.com/chrxh/alien
1•chrxh•13m ago•1 comments

The GNOME Project has a backlog for Code of Conduct violations

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/update-on-code-of-conduct-actions/39994/11
2•lakeviewterrace•14m ago•0 comments

As gene editing for deafness advances, Gallaudet University speaks out

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/11/11/gene-editing-deafness-advances-gallaudet-unive...
1•bookofjoe•16m ago•1 comments

Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/11/big-walk-used-ai-to-fix-a-bug-now-the-indie-gaming-world-i...
3•rndsignals•16m ago•1 comments

An experiment shows how AIs invest in real time. interesting

https://foliobots.com/
1•gonzar79•18m ago•0 comments

I built MemoCart, an Android shopping list

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.memocart.app&hl=fr
1•apppnw•18m ago•0 comments

For the first time, a C++ standard failed to pass the national bodies

https://herecomesthemoon.net/2026/11/cpp26-failed-the-national-bodies/
2•speckx•20m ago•1 comments

I fixed Alamo Drafthouse's search

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/11/09/fixing-alamo-drafthouse-search
1•softwaredoug•21m ago•0 comments

Who Runs the Ransomware Group Qilin?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/11/who-runs-the-ransomware-group-qilin/
1•jannesan•22m ago•0 comments

Knotting spheres in the 4th dimension [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E9Qgl3nPgM
2•doctoboggan•23m ago•0 comments

Stormi: Autonomous Distribution Team

https://trystormi.com
1•abdibrokhim•25m ago•0 comments

Zumungo AI Driven Home Automation

https://zumungo.com/
1•hristov•27m ago•0 comments

€15,000 for Community-Driven Ruby Events

https://roys.blog/15k-for-community-driven-ruby-events
1•mooreds•28m ago•0 comments

Pulling the Lever in a Subway Problem

https://www.jefftk.com/p/pulling-the-lever-in-a-subway-problem
1•NaOH•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Websites for local businesses built fom reviews, keeping upto date

https://locan.ai/
2•vaitko•32m ago•0 comments

Tennis

https://tennis.sixfingerpunch.com/
1•luispa•32m ago•0 comments

United Airlines Restricts Access for Third-Party AI Agents

https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125496
1•ilamont•32m ago•0 comments

Open Source Alternatives

https://www.opensourcealternatives.to
2•saikatsg•32m ago•0 comments

Percival – change Celery beat schedules without restarts

https://github.com/RijinRaju/percival
1•rijinraju856•33m ago•0 comments