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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 :)

Apple's Aperture site is still online in 2026

https://www.apple.com/welcomescreen/aperture3/
1•giladvdn•1m ago•0 comments

Testing at the Boundaries (2019)

https://www.tedinski.com/2019/03/19/testing-at-the-boundaries.html
1•tie-in•2m ago•0 comments

Five months after switching Fluxzy from Electron to Tauri

https://www.fluxzy.io/resources/blogs/electron-to-tauri-migration-fluxzy-desktop
1•birdculture•4m ago•0 comments

Commission simplifies Europe-wide travel booking and train travel

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en
1•_____k•7m ago•0 comments

bfloat16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format
1•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built an open source dication tool based on benchmarks

https://codictate.app
1•emillykkeg•10m ago•0 comments

Meta Incognito Mode: A Private Way to Chat with AI

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/05/incognito-chat-whatsapp-meta-ai/
1•7777777phil•12m ago•1 comments

A new wave of software efficiency is coming

https://simianwords.bearblog.dev/a-new-wave-of-software-efficiency-is-coming/
1•simianwords•15m ago•0 comments

Hetzner us-east, now you can get only the smallest instance (CPX11)

https://status.hetzner.com/incident/0a75c7ae-3377-41dc-aabe-601063724d24
1•gkresic•23m ago•1 comments

Self-contained Linux applications with lone Lisp

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/self-contained-lone-lisp-applications
2•fanf2•24m ago•0 comments

AionDB: PostgreSQL-compatible SQL, graph, and vector database in Rust

https://aiondb.xyz/
2•ayoubnabil•26m ago•0 comments

PSVL 1.0 – The most comprehensive source-visible license (276 clauses)

https://github.com/BMBOMICH/PSVL
1•BMBOMICH•30m ago•0 comments

AutoScientist: Automating the Science of Model Training

https://www.adaptionlabs.ai/blog/autoscientist
1•sethbannon•32m ago•0 comments

Economic Futures – Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/economic-futures
2•gurjeet•33m ago•2 comments

2D map of 26,741M/CV papers from CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR (2024–2025)

https://matejgazda.com/posts/paper-map.html
1•matog•34m ago•1 comments

Waiting for Website Changes in the Browser

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/livereload-in-browser/
1•ingve•37m ago•0 comments

Claude subscriptions no longer include Agent SDK and Claude -p usage

https://www.xda-developers.com/anthropics-claude-subscriptions-no-longer-include-agent-sdk-and-cl...
3•gitaarik•42m ago•0 comments

Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html
2•imartin2k•42m ago•0 comments

Best TTS in 2026: Blind Benchmark

https://techstackups.com/articles/best-tts-2026-blind-benchmark/
3•ritzaco•42m ago•0 comments

Bun's rewrite in Rust was merged

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/23427dbc12fdcff30c23a96a3d6a66d62fdc091d
9•maxloh•48m ago•4 comments

Show HN: I built an AI travel camera because I was tired of Google Lens

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotter-the-travel-companion/id6761238251
1•XanMan•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AGEF, an open evidence format for AI agent sessions

https://github.com/radotsvetkov/agef
1•radotsvetkov•49m ago•0 comments

Solar Impulse 2 Crashes into Gulf

https://dronexl.co/2026/05/13/solar-impulse-2-crashes-gulf/
1•pingou•50m ago•0 comments

PHP RFC: Bound-Erased Generic Types

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/bound_erased_generic_types
2•choult•50m ago•0 comments

Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412
6•Chaoses•51m ago•3 comments

An Experimental PS1 emulator written in Zig

https://github.com/maxpoletaev/nupsx
2•Einenlum•55m ago•0 comments

People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants in Their Area Than AI Data Centers

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/05/13/people-would-rather-have-nuclear-power-plant...
3•robtherobber•57m ago•3 comments

The gen on the family of 'vi' clones

https://jdebp.uk/FGA/vi-family.html
1•JdeBP•57m ago•1 comments

49,000 Lake Tahoe residents will lose power to data centers

https://www.shacknews.com/article/149126/lake-tahoe-residents-lose-power-data-centers
2•vrganj•59m ago•0 comments

RFV-0001: Request for Vibes

https://github.com/Request-For-Vibes/rfv
1•tomaytotomato•1h ago•0 comments