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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•11mo ago

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kuberwastaken•11mo 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 :)

The Therac-25 software-radiation disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
1•bithavoc•42s ago•0 comments

Show HN: JustWorkflowIt, workflow orchestration platform plus code marketplace

https://justworkflowit.com/
1•nkorai•2m ago•0 comments

Uber engineer manager alleges firing after chemo leave and harassment report

https://www.teamblind.com/post/uber-female-engineering-manager-fired-following-chemo-treatment-af...
1•nickvec•2m ago•0 comments

From birds to brains: My twisted path to the fusiform face area (2024)

https://www.kavliprize.org/nancy-kanwisher-autobiography
2•everbody•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VibeAround – Talk to Claude Code from Telegram and Hand over Sessions

https://github.com/jazzenchen/VibeAround
1•jazzen•3m ago•0 comments

Is consciousness the brain's consistency model? [pdf]

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~vijay/papers/waci26.pdf
1•maralom•5m ago•0 comments

Errand, a task runner with a syntax inspired by Terraform/OpenTofu

https://github.com/nuvrel/errand
1•calmondev•8m ago•2 comments

Anybody knows how the Oracle layoffs have impacted the MySQL team? discussion

https://old.reddit.com/r/mysql/comments/1s9dcdy/anybody_knows_how_the_oracle_layoffs_have/
1•taubek•8m ago•0 comments

With One Million Displaced, Lebanon Turns to Digital Wallets for Aid

https://www.wired.com/story/with-one-million-displaced-lebanon-turns-to-digital-wallets-for-aid/
2•joozio•9m ago•0 comments

Easter Thoughts

https://ma.tt/2026/04/easter-thoughts/
1•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simulating a Glowing Fireplace with an RP2040

https://davidcapper.dev/posts/fire-string
1•thip•9m ago•0 comments

Using Gem 3.1 Flash in Ubik to cross-analyze 8 local files and find 49 quotes

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenSourceAI/comments/1rrvs02/crossanalyzing_8_pdfs_finding_49_quotes_and/
1•ieuanking•10m ago•1 comments

What I like about MATS and Research Management

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/avhjA5HEvHypc3ToC/what-i-like-about-mats-and-research-management
1•joozio•11m ago•0 comments

NASA JPL Virtual Tour

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/virtual-tour/
1•kristianpaul•11m ago•0 comments

Stamp It! All Programs Must Report Their Version

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-04-05-stamp-it-all-programs-must-report-their-version/
2•secure•12m ago•0 comments

Have You Seen This?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/13/arts/freaks-and-geeks.html
1•js2•13m ago•0 comments

A Startup Is Supplying Drones to High Schools to Stop Mass Shootings

https://www.wsj.com/business/a-startup-is-supplying-drones-to-high-schools-to-stop-mass-shootings...
1•impish9208•14m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Folks with disabilities, what is it like in this LLM/scraper age?

1•eventualcomp•17m ago•0 comments

Andy Weir Apologizes to 'Star Trek' for Calling Shows 'S–': 'Trying to Be Funny'

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/andy-weir-apologizes-star-trek-1236702791/
1•randycupertino•19m ago•1 comments

China Creates New Aviation Mystery with Offshore Warning Zones

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-creates-new-aviation-mystery-with-offshore-warning-zones-12...
3•mudil•19m ago•2 comments

UFO Time Travel Physics and the Nature of Consciousness

1•uncanny2•21m ago•4 comments

Paste your writing, see which sentences lose readers

https://app.manuscript.no/try
1•issaafk•23m ago•0 comments

Gemma 4 Uncensored (autoresearch results)

https://huggingface.co/collections/TrevorJS/gemma-4-uncensored
3•adefa•25m ago•1 comments

Injectable peptides touted as new fountain of youth. But the science isn't there

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7151279
1•colinprince•27m ago•0 comments

Hitachi Ltd, Part I – By Bradford Morgan White

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/hitachi-ltd-part-i
1•rbanffy•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

6•p-o•32m ago•2 comments

China Built the World's Drone Industry. Now It's Locking Down the Skies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/world/asia/china-drone-regulations.html
2•bookofjoe•33m ago•1 comments

Is All Software Converging

https://jry.io/writing/is-all-software-converging/
2•jryio•34m ago•0 comments

IRL Streaming Map

https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-irl-streaming-map.html
2•gnabgib•34m ago•1 comments

AI agents pay USDC for API data via x402 micropayments – no API keys

https://x402.aigregator.com
3•ybonda•37m ago•0 comments