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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 :)

Upcoming election could produce modern Germany's first far-right state governor

https://apnews.com/article/germany-saxony-anhalt-election-far-right-afd-3162fbdd71e6f745eeb239e29...
1•geox•1m ago•0 comments

Rust Function Overloading – Call for Experimentation

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/19/overloading-experiment/
1•vinhnx•9m ago•0 comments

But where does taste come from?

https://dustycloud.org/blog/but-where-does-taste-come-from/
1•vinhnx•10m ago•0 comments

Cadence – a floating lyrics overlay for Spotify and YouTube Music

https://github.com/MowkE/cadence
1•Eclipzey•11m ago•0 comments

Gregg Shorthand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_shorthand
1•jaredwiener•16m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw 2.0

https://docs.openclaw.ai/releases/2026.8.1
1•guyinblackshirt•18m ago•0 comments

AI isn't sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we anthropomorphize it

https://theconversation.com/ai-isnt-close-to-becoming-sentient-the-real-danger-lies-in-how-easily...
1•Osiris30•20m ago•1 comments

Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer (1979)

https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/bom/anthrophilic.html
1•throw310822•28m ago•0 comments

ElephpantDB: A pure PHP SQL database

https://github.com/antonmedv/elephpantdb
1•medv•28m ago•0 comments

Protecting Postgres from everything that isn't Postgres

https://clickhouse.com/blog/protect-postgres-from-supporting-processes
1•saisrirampur•38m ago•0 comments

Anna's Archive Lost Several Domains

https://goodereader.com/blog/ebook-and-audiobook-piracy-news/annas-archive-lost-several-domains
1•kozmonaut•38m ago•0 comments

Building a Flight Controller in Rust

https://www.staszewski.xyz/blog/building-a-flight-controller-in-rust/
1•kamilstaszewski•43m ago•0 comments

The Open Air European Museum

https://www.theprincetontory.com/is-europe-an-open-air-museum/
1•satvikpendem•45m ago•0 comments

We run five Claude Code sessions at once

https://draper.chat/dev/the-ultimate-claude-code-parallelisation-guide-2026
1•tomchill•50m ago•0 comments

Second Wave Solarpunk

https://planetsandmonsters.blogspot.com/2026/08/second-wave-solarpunk.html
1•rdmuser•53m ago•0 comments

Vim Classic debuts with its first release as a Vim fork without AI assistance

https://www.neowin.net/news/vim-classic-debuts-with-its-first-release-as-a-vim-fork-without-ai-as...
1•pir8life4me•53m ago•1 comments

Sivers in Bangalore

https://sive.rs/met/at-15
1•nreece•57m ago•0 comments

Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/kansas-town-drops-charges-against-teacher...
3•rdmuser•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tracking spec-driven development in the wild

https://sddobservatory.com/
1•emilesilvis•1h ago•0 comments

PlayStation wants to prove in court that you don't own your digital games

https://www.polygon.com/sony-digital-games-lawsuit-california/
3•Markoff•1h ago•0 comments

I built a multiplayer version of the 4,500-year-old Royal Game of Ur

https://royalgameofur.app
2•potentdream•1h ago•0 comments

Roget's Thesaurus

https://artflsrv04.uchicago.edu/roget-thesaurus/
1•gregsadetsky•1h ago•0 comments

Faster than real-time video generation with #1 quality model

https://fal.ai/tools/minimax-h3-max
1•treesciencebot•1h ago•0 comments

Samsung's SmartThings API Terminates Free Access

https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/samsungs-smartthings-api-terminates-free-access/
4•ryan_j_naughton•1h ago•0 comments

Any Recommended Alternatives to Google Maps and Apple Maps?

2•derbOac•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you feel about AI generated documentation?

3•LelouBil•1h ago•1 comments

Rootless Docker and Its Hidden Security Trade-Offs

https://www.kenmuse.com/blog/rootless-docker-and-its-hidden-security-trade-offs/
2•zdw•1h ago•1 comments

Open Home Foundation

https://www.openhomefoundation.org/
2•LelouBil•1h ago•0 comments

Care for a Little More AI?

https://proofsandprompts.com/2026/08/30/care-for-a-little-more-ai/
1•Shuddown•1h ago•0 comments

Context7 vs. Claude Code's Web Search: A Token and Cost Benchmark

https://upstash.com/blog/context7-vs-web-search-benchmark
1•y1zhou•1h ago•0 comments