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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: OpenSCAD Models for Industrial Grade R/C Lawnmower

https://github.com/zelon88/RC_Mower_Trailer
1•zelon88•2m ago•0 comments

FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last GPL Code from Its Base System

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-16-Goes-GPL-Free
1•brandhout•2m ago•0 comments

Chipotle to open its first restaurant in Mexico this week

https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/chipotle-opens-first-location-in-mexico/
1•mikhael•3m ago•0 comments

What makes an AI coding tool worth paying for?

https://vibecodingagency.com/gpu-cloud/
1•vibeagency•6m ago•1 comments

Grok Faces a Trust Crisis After Developers Flag a Major Privacy Concern

https://www.inc.com/julie-lee/elon-musks-grok-faces-a-trust-crisis-after-developers-flag-a-major-...
1•baranul•7m ago•0 comments

Mozilla Syncstorage-Rs (Self-Hosted Firefox Sync)

https://mozilla-services.github.io/syncstorage-rs/
1•hosteur•7m ago•0 comments

Should a smartwatch track the user's emotions?

1•accofrisk•8m ago•2 comments

Always Go with a Monorepo

https://kore-nordmann.de/blog/always_go_with_a_monorepo.html
1•ingve•8m ago•0 comments

Rebuilding Our Notification Platform for Timely Notifications

https://www.patreon.com/engineering/posts/how-we-scaled-162544709
1•birdculture•11m ago•0 comments

Why Are Japanese Retail Traders Shorting the US Dollar?

https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/07/15/why-are-japanese-retail-traders-shorting-the-us-dollar/
2•emsidisii•15m ago•0 comments

Web Design Museum

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/
1•fortuitous-frog•16m ago•0 comments

Code was our medium for thought

https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/code-is-a-medium-for-thought/
2•goranmoomin•17m ago•0 comments

Pebble July 2026 Update

https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-mega-update-july-2026
1•smig0•17m ago•0 comments

An Unprecedented Data Center Boom Means New Challenges for Texas

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/08/texas-regulation-data-centers-electricity-power-water/
2•turtleyacht•21m ago•0 comments

Semantic Primes (2018)

http://machinamenta.blogspot.com/2018/01/semantic-primes.html
1•txoria•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PixFinder – Free offline AI+OCR Image Search

https://pixfinder.app/
1•alexkh•22m ago•0 comments

AI eating software: IBM crash

https://www.bargo.ai/research/ibm-ai-capex-cannibalization
1•Kavon2992•24m ago•0 comments

SpaceXAI's Unpermitted Data Center Power Project Impacts Black Communities

https://gizmodo.com/spacexais-unpermitted-data-center-power-project-impacts-black-communities-ana...
2•baranul•27m ago•0 comments

Blog about hiring was written 23 years ago (Still valid)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hiring
2•rushil_b_patel•29m ago•0 comments

Decibri – unified audio layer for AI agents and Voice AI applications

https://decibri.com
2•vyrotek•34m ago•0 comments

Magic Cap OS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cap
2•doener•35m ago•0 comments

Clean Up Kernel (2020)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038
2•downbad_•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VulnCast – open-source e-paper dashboard for live CVE/exploit Intel

https://github.com/vulnersCom/VulnCast
2•isox•41m ago•0 comments

We need to talk about the Bun Rust rewrite [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAjNWanR3n8
2•baranul•43m ago•0 comments

At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/15/at-last-a-good-reason-to-buy-an-ai-pc-reinin...
3•raybb•43m ago•0 comments

PDF Batch Translator

https://github.com/markmatsu/pdf-batch-translator
2•markmatsushima•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A free tool that turns any AI topic into an interactive, cited lesson

https://prathibhax.com/
1•anandp1989•44m ago•0 comments

IBM loses quarter of its value as tech giant's shares plunge and profits falter

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/ibm-shares-profit-drop-value
2•ndsipa_pomu•44m ago•1 comments

Australia to establish government AI office, curb data centres' water use

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-establish-government-ai-office-coordinate-re...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•46m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Insightful research or longreads on core teams in IT?

1•sam_lowry_•48m ago•0 comments