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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 :)

Show HN: Bench on Your Network

https://vbus.dev/
1•abu-matterize•29s ago•0 comments

Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Kind of Celestial Object: Black Hole Stars

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronomers-peered-at-the-early-universe-and-may-have-d...
1•pseudolus•10m ago•1 comments

If you had trusted the settled science of the day here is how it would have gone

https://twitter.com/SamaHoole/status/2088832696155820150
1•delichon•10m ago•0 comments

Observers in Quantum Field Theory Cannot Be Fundamental Excitations

https://philpapers.org/rec/TANOIQ
1•danieltanfh95•12m ago•0 comments

AI-Prepped Paper Passed Peer Review. Now What?

https://cacm.acm.org/news/ai-prepped-paper-passed-peer-review-now-what/
1•pseudolus•12m ago•0 comments

X1 First Flight – Largest Electric Aircraft [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEudbAjschs
1•mpweiher•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Termique, an SSH client with E2E encrypted sync across desktop and iOS

https://termique.app/
2•masitings•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wordle for Metro Stations

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5•platipouf•19m ago•1 comments

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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2•Alifatisk•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Multi-Mailbox for Developer Inbox (Resend)

1•ricky300300•20m ago•0 comments

What I learned about the American Dream from Europeans pretending to live in OH

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1•ericmay•20m ago•0 comments

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/
2•austinallegro•26m ago•0 comments

Measuring Autonomous AI Research

https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/measuring-autonomous-research
1•DSemba•26m ago•0 comments

Actively Steerable Femtosat Constellations

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/actively-steerable-femtosat-constellations-for-in-sit...
3•Tomte•32m ago•0 comments

Peer to Peer Groceries

https://antoniosbarotsis.github.io/posts/p2p-groceries/
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Vaultwarden Sequence Diagrams

https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Vaultwarden/Log%2520In
2•billyp-rva•33m ago•2 comments

Show HN: PLC Lint – static analysis for CODESYS/PLCopenXML

https://plc-linter.com/demo
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A False Nuclear Claim About Iran Ricocheted from India to Washington

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/business/iran-nuclear-false-claims.html
5•sbulaev•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Harness session memory without transcript hoarding

https://llm-wiki.net/#sessions-rehydrate-future-work
3•nvk•37m ago•0 comments

Google Turns on Gemini A.I. For Students Using Its Classroom App

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/business/google-gemini-ai-schools.html
1•bookofjoe•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Who is using AI? A daily tracker, 1,600+ city heatmap, DOI dataset

https://whoisusingai.com/tracker
1•pixipace•41m ago•0 comments

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1•zlvox•41m ago•0 comments

Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform

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5•_____k•50m ago•0 comments

The Narrative Recycling

https://www.bitchute.com/video/yAqbX3UjTXe9/
1•untiledsource•51m ago•0 comments

US warns allied nations: Side with us in the AI race

https://www.neowin.net/news/us-warns-allied-nations-side-with-us-in-the-ai-race-against-china-or-...
2•rantingdemon•52m ago•0 comments

Who is Anthropic's auditor – and why should we care?

https://www.ft.com/content/b93d8030-203b-4445-b4a7-49e52d9b17a5
2•root-parent•54m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Muchita – a free Chrome extension that looks for better prices

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/muchita-shopping/kdfhenbdndhjcenmjnbnllenhacpaaok
2•zcapps•57m ago•0 comments

Jensen Huang from Nvidia on the Compute Behind Intelligence [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsQB0n0YV3k
1•ksec•58m ago•0 comments

The SDLC Was Designed for Humans

https://yusufaytas.com/the-sdlc-was-designed-for-humans
11•yusufaytas•58m ago•0 comments

Stripe 2.9% vs. Adyen 0.6% vs. Braintree 2.59%: 2026 Fees

https://valueaddvc.com/blog/stripe-vs-adyen-vs-braintree-enterprise-payment-processing-compared-i...
2•ksec•1h ago•1 comments