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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 :)

Vatican Observatory has asteroid named after Pope Leo XIII

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-05/vatican-observatory-astronomy-asteroids-p...
1•thinkingemote•2m ago•0 comments

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854
3•ingve•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you detect breaking API changes in CI?

1•coffeecoderr•7m ago•0 comments

Sanders splits with Washington on AI arms race with China

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/30/bernie-sanders-ai-arms-race-china
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•9m ago•0 comments

NHS Goes to War Against Open Source

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
2•edent•11m ago•1 comments

Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html
1•thm•11m ago•0 comments

'Rogue' Cursor AI agent loses control and wipes company's database

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'We Know You Live Right Here': No Secrets in America's New Surveillance Dragnet

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/immigration-ice-arrests-surveillance-6f1cef64
2•impish9208•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Git-issues – Issue tracker that lives in your repo as Markdown

https://steviee.github.io/git-issues/
1•steviee•20m ago•2 comments

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (Noctua)

https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions
1•Tiberium•21m ago•0 comments

A Letter from Dijkstra on APL

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Dijkstra_Letter.htm
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A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3796537
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Questions and Perspectives Shape Solutions

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Claudemesh - Let your local Claude Code sessions find and talk to each other

https://www.npmjs.com/package/claudemesh
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2•thedays•27m ago•2 comments

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2•beardyw•32m ago•0 comments

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1•geox•32m ago•0 comments

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Supply Chain Security – Part 1

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2•latexr•39m ago•0 comments

A Deep Dive into Email Addresses

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1•begoon•45m ago•0 comments

Fruit flies unexpectedly survived hypergravity and even reproduced

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/04/30/under-crushing-hypergravity-flies-adapt-and-recover
2•giuliomagnifico•45m ago•1 comments

Show HN: "Woo", a multi-user world for agents

https://woo.hughpyle.workers.dev/
1•inguz•46m ago•0 comments

A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related con

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1•joozio•53m ago•0 comments