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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 :)

Huntress CEO: employee used 'poor judgment' in alerting criminal

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/30/huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgmen...
1•romaniitedomum•43s ago•0 comments

Grok's Traffic Is Mostly Driven by Adult Content

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/06/24/groks-traffic-is-mostly-driven-by-adult-cont...
4•sorenjan•7m ago•3 comments

Google pulls the plug on Tenor API, killing GIF pickers around the web

https://9to5google.com/2026/06/30/google-tenor-api-gif-updates/
1•thm•11m ago•0 comments

Something Is Wrong with Modern Longevity Science

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/06/morbid-saul-justin-newman-book-review-eat-your-ice-...
1•nabbed•12m ago•1 comments

The future must belong to Small Language Models

https://unvoid.substack.com/p/the-guilt-machine
1•nullscribe•16m ago•0 comments

CVE-2026-55200: libssh2 memory corruption with possible RCE

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-R8MH-X5QV-7GG2
1•wildylion•16m ago•0 comments

HTML Me

https://hereforawhile.neocities.org
1•smalltorch•17m ago•1 comments

World Bank to abandon goal to devote 45% of lending to climate change projects

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/world-bank-abandon-goal-devote-45-lending-resources-cl...
3•littlexsparkee•20m ago•0 comments

Claude Sonnet 5 – benchmark results

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-sonnet-5
2•lucamark•20m ago•0 comments

Nvidia resurrects older graphics cards as RAM demands impact tech prices

https://mashable.com/tech/nvidia-gpu-rtx-3060-ramageddon
2•ripe•23m ago•0 comments

mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
1•downbad_•24m ago•0 comments

Cheaper Than Concrete: Robots and the New Stone Age

https://originals.is/p/cheap-splendor-robots-and-the-new
1•MediaSquirrel•26m ago•0 comments

List of Domesticated Animals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domesticated_animals
1•jcmontx•27m ago•0 comments

The best thing that's ever happened for multiplayer games?

https://mas-bandwidth.com/the-best-thing-thats-ever-happened-for-multiplayer-games/
2•gafferongames•30m ago•0 comments

Drone Physics

https://iahmed.me/post/drone-physics/
2•wrxd•31m ago•0 comments

Chad Fowler's "Phoenix Architecture"

https://stevekrouse.com/phoenix
2•stevekrouse•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jensen – a Deus Ex: Human Revolution theme for 30 developer apps

https://tomaytotomato.github.io/jensen/
1•tomaytotomato•33m ago•0 comments

GPT 5.5 uses Grug Brained talk during reasoning for 2x token efficiency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypO0q_8zhWw
3•m3h•34m ago•0 comments

SlateDB: An Object-Native LSM for Online Systems

https://slatedb.io/blog/introducing-slatedb/
6•agavra•34m ago•0 comments

Why AI Hasn't Cured Anything yet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-hWHV2ZKOA
1•gurjeet•34m ago•0 comments

Skill.md AI Crawler Visibility

https://github.com/MerqryLabs/ai-crawler-visibility
2•novaesystems•35m ago•0 comments

WordPress Vulnerability Scan Came Back Clean. Are You Still Exposed?

https://blog.wpsec.com/your-wordpress-vulnerability-scan-came-back-clean-are-you-still-exposed/
1•jonasl•36m ago•0 comments

Cinder Dial, a molten forge-machine turning in real time

https://sand-morph.up.railway.app/grand-elemental
1•echohive42•36m ago•0 comments

SCOTUS Decision: Law Enforcement's Use of 'Geofence Warrant' Was a 'Search'

https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/scotus_geofence_warrant_search
1•coloneltcb•37m ago•0 comments

We used coding agents to add RonSQL support to RonDB

http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2026/06/experiences-from-new-wave-of-ai.html
1•jamesblonde•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Frontier AI Lab Jobs – Open Jobs by Function at OpenAI, Anthropic

https://frontierjobs.org/
1•te_ch•40m ago•0 comments

Bromure Agentic Coding: Wrap agent in a VM and proxy that VM, preventing leaks

1•pixdamix•41m ago•0 comments

Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made

https://soranews24.com/2026/06/30/tokyo-has-only-two-barley-tea-makers-and-we-visited-one-to-see-...
4•zdw•42m ago•0 comments

Learning to Replicate Expert Judgment in Financial Tasks

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/learning-to-replicate-expert-judgment-in-financial-tasks/
1•dphuang2•43m ago•0 comments

Q&A with Micron's VP and GM of Memory

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/q-and-a-with-microns-vp-and-gm-of
1•zdw•43m ago•0 comments