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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 :)

Shein and Temu items could face €20 fee in France crackdown on ultrafast fashion

https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/01/shein-and-temu-items-could-face-20-levy-in-frances-crackdown-...
2•Markoff•1m ago•0 comments

BoolCodec: Variable-Length Space-Efficient Sequence of Booleans

https://github.com/ronfriedhaber/boolcodec
2•ronfriedhaber•2m ago•0 comments

Depression Stalls Formation of New Brain Cells

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/depression-stalls-formation-new-brain-cells
2•gmays•3m ago•0 comments

US, China arm for space warfare: hunter satellites and orbital weapons

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-china-arm-space-warfare-hunter-satellites-orbital-w...
2•bushwart•3m ago•0 comments

My Agentic Engineering Workflow after 6,775 sessions [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nRxEy1kUY
2•apitman•5m ago•0 comments

The Vanishing Apprentice

https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-vanishing-apprentice/
2•yarapavan•5m ago•0 comments

MST3K-Anything

https://github.com/jgbrwn/mst3k-anything
2•indigodaddy•5m ago•0 comments

gRPC-Web Failed the Web

https://buf.build/blog/grpc-web-failed-the-web
2•0xedb•6m ago•0 comments

What Are RWAs: From Experiment to Infrastructure

https://rocknblock.io/blog/what-are-rwa
2•dalvrosa•6m ago•0 comments

Decoding Google's Gclid

https://read.vantezzen.io/gclid
2•bennett_dev•7m ago•0 comments

More Nothing Now

https://aeon.co/essays/play-is-doing-its-work-even-if-were-not-keeping-score
2•Towaway69•7m ago•1 comments

Claude Comment Detection

https://entropicthoughts.com/ai-comment-classifier
2•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

Snickers launches digital bar to feed your "hungry" AI

https://www.snickers.com/hungrai-qa
2•ritwikr•8m ago•2 comments

Auto-Levelling or Histogram Equalization?

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/08/31/auto-levelling-or-histogram-equalization/
2•ibobev•8m ago•0 comments

Calculators Crunch the Integrals You Cannot Solve

https://h3nry-d1az.github.io/blog/posts/2026/06/20/
2•vismit2000•8m ago•0 comments

Plush's New Register-Based Interpreter Is Insanely Fast

https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-09-02-plushs-new-register-based-interpreter/
2•maxime_cb•8m ago•0 comments

WorkGen Translate: decodes slang, idioms, and workplace jargon across age groups

https://gosunny.org/workplace/translate/
2•sea-gold•9m ago•0 comments

Singapore subway (mrt) information display types

https://www.sgtrains.com/technology-infosys.html
2•gregorvand•10m ago•0 comments

Samsung is randomly deactivating some accounts for 'security reasons'

https://9to5google.com/2026/09/01/samsung-account-deactivated-issue/
2•Markoff•12m ago•0 comments

OpenSCAD Skill for 3D Modeling

https://github.com/ModelRift/openscad-skill
2•jetter•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Apple's TLS stack can't see weak ciphers, so I craft raw ClientHellos

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radien-network-toolbox/id6789207545
2•igor_arsenkin•14m ago•0 comments

Explore the Bible like Wikipedia

https://trysojourn.app/writings/explore-the-bible-like-wikipedia/
3•jmathai•14m ago•0 comments

A Hidden Pattern in Your Saliva Can Predict Risk of Colorectal Cancer

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-hidden-pattern-in-your-saliva-can-predict-risk-of-colorectal-cance...
2•gmays•15m ago•0 comments

Lessons from shipping a watch-only Apple Watch app, built with Claude

https://silentbell.app/lessons.html
3•jakublipinski•17m ago•0 comments

How to find an eclipse around another planet

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/24/how-to-find-an-eclipse-around-another-planet/
2•surprisetalk•17m ago•0 comments

Just Bury Your Trash

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/just-bury-your-trash
3•eamag•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Thelemail, private email hosting for your own domain

https://thelemail.com/
2•Hexmere•20m ago•1 comments

The Duke of Moctezuma Is Alive and Runs a Marketing Agency

https://friedkielbasa.substack.com/p/the-duke-of-moctezuma-is-alive-and
2•fkozlowski•21m ago•0 comments

Even the oceans are struggling to keep their cool

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/even-the-oceans-are-struggling-to-keep-their-cool
2•speckx•22m ago•0 comments

The Art of Leaping Out of Planes to Fight Wildfires

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/07/the-art-of-leaping-out-of-planes-to-fight-wildfires
2•fortran77•22m ago•0 comments