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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•11mo ago

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kuberwastaken•11mo 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 :)

Karpathy's knowledge base matches our Grep-is-All-You-Need paper

https://www.localkin.dev/papers/grep-is-all-you-need
1•localkin•2m ago•0 comments

We Made Technology Easy to Use. That Was a Mistake

https://slate.com/technology/2026/04/usability-complexity-apple-iphone-facebook-donald-norman.html
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The Awake "Sleep" Loop: Why Attention Lapses Occur in ADHD

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Show HN: Signals – finding the most informative agent traces without LLM judges

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00356
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The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger

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Beat Cancer Off

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ArXiv will establish itself as an independent nonprofit organization

https://tech.cornell.edu/arxiv/
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IntelliJ IDEA's New Kotlin Coroutine Inspections

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Writing Lisp Is AI Resistant and I'm Sad

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Budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

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Introduction to Computer Music [pdf]

https://composerprogrammer.com/introductiontocomputermusic.pdf
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IC3PEAK – Marching [video]

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The Importance of Accurate Color Values (2019)

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Demonstrating Real Time AV2 Decoding on Consumer Laptops

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https://github.com/rs/lagsim
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Families Can Now Eat Some Fish from Hudson River for First Time in 50 Years

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You gave a perfect demo – they still said no

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A broken auto-live poller, and what perceived urgency does to Claude Code

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Discovery of capability overhangs via wiki writing

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8•ingenika•1h ago•1 comments

I built an autoresearch loop for performance engineering (27% speedup hashtable)

https://bluuewhale.github.io/posts/i-automated-my-way-to-a-27-percent-faster-hash-table/
1•bluuewhale•1h ago•0 comments

Black Hat USA 2025 – HTTP/1.1 Must Die the Desync Endgame [video]

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Cuneicode - Exact rational arithmetic. Quantum computing stdlib.

https://github.com/enkimecca/cuneicode
1•enkimecca•1h ago•0 comments

The secrets of black holes and the Higgs mass could be hidden in a 7D geometry

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-secrets-black-holes-higgs-mass.html
3•teleforce•1h ago•0 comments