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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 :)

Will failure in Iran reshape how the US fights?

https://www.ft.com/content/5bdb67a5-5c53-46aa-8a04-d0480e700ee4
1•petethomas•1m ago•0 comments

Panama Canal fees hit record high as El Niño and Iran war choke shipping

https://www.ft.com/content/38083cb5-3892-40a1-b90f-102109f96b17
1•petethomas•1m ago•0 comments

Belly Fat and Low Vitamin D May More Than Double the Risk of Early Death

https://scitechdaily.com/belly-fat-and-low-vitamin-d-may-more-than-double-the-risk-of-early-death/
1•Gaishan•2m ago•0 comments

Why one name will appear 4 times on Vermont's Republican primary ballot

https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2026-06-23/why-h-brooke-paige-appear-4-times-republican-...
1•mauvehaus•4m ago•0 comments

In the US, one in seven leisurely moments comes with guilt

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/us-one-seven-leisurely-moments-comes-guilt
1•littlexsparkee•6m ago•0 comments

Anthropic to start embedding invisible watermarks

https://fortune.com/2026/08/11/anthropic-claude-watermark-ai-text-police-ai-slop/
1•TruffleLabs•9m ago•3 comments

Use deployment context to your advantage

https://twitter.com/nikpil06/status/2087328872308285930
1•nikhilpillai23•9m ago•0 comments

A Watermark for Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226
2•matheusmoreira•11m ago•0 comments

Neon acquires ElectricSQL to build better data syncing for agents

https://electric.ax/blog/2026/08/11/electric-joining-databricks
4•paulwarren•15m ago•0 comments

Diabetes charity capitalises on AI technology

https://www.royalgazette.com/health/news/article/20260811/diabetes-charity-capitalises-on-ai-tech...
2•caruasdo•17m ago•0 comments

CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9281-26
4•michaefe•18m ago•0 comments

Self-contained agents that self-organize

https://antigma.ai/
3•wspeirs•25m ago•0 comments

GitHub repo hagezi/DNS-blocklists flagged

https://old.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/1vkcklm/github_repo_hagezidnsblocklists_gone
2•impish9208•33m ago•0 comments

delegate-skills

https://github.com/amElnagdy/delegate-skills
2•frozenseven•35m ago•0 comments

A free federal court deadline calculator that shows its FRCP Rule 6 work

https://smeltworks.com/courtclock/
1•lvaughan_cc•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ListToCart – Turn photo(s) of a school supply list into an Amazon cart

https://listtocart.com/
1•areveo•36m ago•0 comments

Xinjiang Internment Camps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
8•palad1n•36m ago•0 comments

Who Pays for the High-Powered Grid That Data Centers Need?

https://www.texasobserver.org/who-pays-for-texas-grid-upgrades-data-centers/
2•cdrnsf•38m ago•0 comments

"The Search Results Are Poisoned"

https://chris-parmer.com/the-search-results-are-poisoned/
2•chriddyp•39m ago•0 comments

Traces of Two Extinct 'Ghost' Ancestors Were Found Hiding in Modern Human DNA

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/traces-of-two-extinct-ghost-ancestors-were-found-hiding...
1•bookofjoe•40m ago•0 comments

Open AI models hacked into HuggingFace

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbGS8_0FmKx/
2•zlu•42m ago•0 comments

AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

https://www.wired.com/story/organoids-lab-grown-brains-neural-networks/
2•Logans_Run•45m ago•0 comments

The closing of the U.S. economy's K-shaped gap

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/11/spending-growth-income
2•toomuchtodo•45m ago•0 comments

Playcall is the open-source alternative to Gong

https://github.com/Dphenomenal101/playcall
1•mooreds•45m ago•0 comments

Geoffrey Hinton's Bad AI Prediction Became a Legend [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv4EAR0jAUU
1•rossdavidh•48m ago•0 comments

We know that splitting up the MMR vaccine could be dangerous

https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/11/how-we-know-splitting-up-mmr-vaccine-could-be-dangerous/
3•EA-3167•51m ago•1 comments

Nobody Banned Private Rockets in India. That Was the Problem

https://liftoffasia.com/posts/vikram-india-private-rocket/
2•ridiculous_leke•52m ago•0 comments

AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/aop/framewor...
3•Svetlitski•55m ago•1 comments

Lessons learned from the fate of AstraZeneca's drug pipeline

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24833294/
2•brandonb•58m ago•0 comments

Eclipse locator: find the best place to see the eclipse

https://jdlm.info/eclipse-locator/
1•jdleesmiller•59m ago•1 comments