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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 :)

ARM's 2026 'Tech' Day Is a Self-Inflicted Wound

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2026/09/07/arms-2026-tech-day-is-a-self-inflicted-wound/
1•fork-bomber•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I pointed 11 cold AI agents at my own product. 3 finished

https://pact0.com/notes/agents-vs-our-own-product
1•benban•3m ago•0 comments

The Mailman Kept Crossing Out My Address

https://idiallo.com/blog/sharing-a-name
1•firefoxd•5m ago•0 comments

The Scientific Challenge Atlas

https://micde.umich.edu/scientific-challenge-atlas/
1•JohnHammersley•7m ago•0 comments

Personal statement on joining the OpenAI board

https://paulfchristiano.substack.com/p/personal-statement-on-joining-the
1•doener•8m ago•0 comments

Why make digitized forms of human skill at all?

1•samdhar•13m ago•0 comments

GPT‑Live‑1 in the API

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live-1-in-the-api/
1•arittr•17m ago•0 comments

AVH Was Sued

https://avherald.com/h?article=53c8958a
2•_caw•20m ago•1 comments

Haiku Now Supports Changing Audio Outputs Live, Other Improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-August-2026
3•fork-bomber•24m ago•0 comments

Senator Hawley opens investigation into OpenAI HuggingFace hack

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/chairman-hawley-launches-investigation-into-openai-for-hacking-exis...
1•reasonableklout•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VeriCordon – CI evidence for agent/tool authorization decisions

https://github.com/dgenio/agentfence
1•dgenio•25m ago•0 comments

Californians owes $500B they never agreed to pay

https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/09/10/owe-500-billion-never-agreed-pay/
1•littlexsparkee•26m ago•0 comments

A kernel run on the Navier-Stokes blowup Lean project

https://github.com/ravanova/blowup-search/blob/main/writeup/7_confirmation/BLOG_CONFIRMATION.md
4•ravanova•32m ago•0 comments

We Replaced MMAP with Io_uring in Our Rust Query Engine. It Got Slower

https://www.conviva.ai/resource/we-replaced-mmap-with-io_uring-in-our-rust-query-engine-it-got-sl...
4•rzk•36m ago•0 comments

Racing to solve maths problems now 'pointless'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/racing-to-solve-maths-problems-pointless-tristan-buckmaste...
5•elahieh•39m ago•0 comments

Astra marks the Claude 3.7 moment for knowledge work

https://fundaai.substack.com/p/deepllm-gpt-6-astra-opens-new-markets
4•deepmem•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Interactive history of Earth and human civilization

https://earth.ethanplus.ai/
2•freakynit•46m ago•0 comments

Apple Watch can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/10/watch-out-apple-timepiece-can-grab-snippets-of-co...
2•signa11•48m ago•0 comments

Optimizing a Spin-Lock

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/optimizing-a-spin-lock/
5•signa11•51m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What Can We Do?

5•silexia•52m ago•1 comments

Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2: Orchestrating the Pareto Frontier

https://sakana.ai/fugu-max-release/
5•hardmaru•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Swiftime - time tracking you can talk to, with an API for AI agents

https://swiftime.ai/
1•tomazaria•58m ago•0 comments

The Branch and the Wish – On mathematics, machines and what the proof never held

https://nisheethvishnoi.substack.com/p/the-branch-and-the-wish
1•vismit2000•1h ago•0 comments

A jank percentage doesn't say where the frame went

https://github.com/timkrest/FrameHUD/blob/main/docs/article-frame-phases.md
1•timkrest•1h ago•0 comments

The Telescope NASA Launched Sunday Was Built to Look at You

https://galratner.substack.com/p/the-telescope-nasa-launched-sunday
2•blartpaul•1h ago•0 comments

The Gemini app is now available for Windows

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-app-now-on-windows/
9•quysala12•1h ago•4 comments

Thinking with Looped Flows

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11801
1•E-Reverance•1h ago•0 comments

Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (19th Century)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/metamorphosis-early-modern-flap-book/
1•benbreen•1h ago•0 comments

One company that steals accuses another company that steals [pdf]

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a597377d3b5/Anthropic-Detecting-and-co...
2•iamsyr•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Hekla, an event sourcing runtime with its own language

https://hekla.tqwewe.com/
1•tqwewe•1h ago•0 comments