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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 :)

Superagers

https://pilot-protection-services.aopa.org/news/2026/june/01/superagers
1•dp-hackernews•1m ago•0 comments

More than chatbots: Why business AI agents are the next product battleground

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3•billybuckwheat•3m ago•0 comments

When the ability to smell goes away

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1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What Makes a Podcast Successful?

1•dimamik•13m ago•0 comments

Agentic Loops: Why the Best AI Coding Workflows Are Loops, Not Prompts

https://skilldb.dev/blog/agentic-loops-why-the-best-ai-coding-workflows-are-loops
2•dev_chad•14m ago•0 comments

Self-Improving Memory for Agents

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2•gmays•15m ago•0 comments

Anyone else receive a "GPU droplet destroyed" email from DigitalOcean

3•reassess_blind•15m ago•0 comments

How GLM-5.2 beat Fable 5 At Website Design

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4•anmaygu•22m ago•0 comments

Agentic Resource Discovery Specification

https://agenticresourcediscovery.org/
2•DanielKehoe•24m ago•0 comments

The UK's New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents

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24•Brajeshwar•27m ago•6 comments

Book Review: Where's My Flying Car?

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3•zetalyrae•27m ago•0 comments

Glassblowing #2: Making a tungsten lamp and (bad) vacuum diode

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Top Bank Regulator Spoke at an Invite-Only Client Dinner After Fed Meeting

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5•JohnHammersley•31m ago•0 comments

Trust Identity Protocol v1.0, an open post-quantum standard for human identity

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Ask HN: Do you find it annoying to share your availability over text/DMs?

7•siddhibee•32m ago•2 comments

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Ask HN: Do you use Apache Iceberg in Production?

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OCaml 5.5.0

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-5-5-0-released/18265
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2•imaxxs•46m ago•0 comments

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2•Voice_of_Void•46m ago•0 comments

Cervical cancer mortality trends after HPV vaccination in England 2001–24

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7•bookofjoe•46m ago•0 comments

Europe buys the future, America builds it

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2•andsoitis•47m ago•0 comments

Google Is Using Nvidia's Playbook to Build a Rival AI Chip Business

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4•Brajeshwar•51m ago•2 comments

Show HN: SkillsGuard – static scanner for malicious AI agent skills

https://github.com/Teycir/SkillsGuard
2•teycir•52m ago•0 comments

Computer Vision – Lecture 1.1 (Introduction: Organization) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW1cIaOBkI8
2•skidrow•53m ago•0 comments