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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 :)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone
1•chistev•1m ago•0 comments

Tesla's robotaxis are moving in reverse

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/teslas-robotaxis-are-moving-in-reverse/
2•decimalenough•6m ago•0 comments

International Child Abduction in Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_child_abduction_in_Japan
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Who Gets Saved in the New West?

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1•littlexsparkee•7m ago•0 comments

A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras

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2•UmYeahNo•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's expected from an engineering manager or director now?

3•agentwrangler•15m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJRlHKQqX2M
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Israel's $50M Experiment to Change U.S. Public Opinion

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4•abdelhousni•18m ago•2 comments

AMD publishes machine-readable ISA so frontier models can write its GPU kernels

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2•logickkk1•20m ago•0 comments

Tech titans' playbook to defy Aussie social media ban

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2•asdefghyk•20m ago•0 comments

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2•maxall4•23m ago•0 comments

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8•robenkleene•23m ago•1 comments

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2•dperussina•36m ago•0 comments

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2•type0•42m ago•0 comments

Sandbox-CLI is now in public beta

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Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network

https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2026/isp_mcast/
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2•worldofmatthew•48m ago•0 comments

AI pricing is understood now but the token is still just a cost

https://www.solvimon.com/blog/ai-pricing-is-understood-now-2026
2•arnon•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ActionRail, Runtime value/action grounding framework for AI agents

https://github.com/ToolJet/ActionRail/
2•oss-dev•53m ago•0 comments