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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 :)

Lightning.ai October 2026 Security Incident

https://lightning.ai/security-incident/
1•indigodaddy•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Can superintelligent AI alignement be decentralized?

1•julienreszka•6m ago•2 comments

How Much Computation Do We Get from Every Byte We Move?

https://medium.com/hzlms/hzlms-6-how-much-computation-do-we-get-from-every-byte-we-move-814fef063771
1•asbassan•6m ago•0 comments

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/
3•tdeck•7m ago•0 comments

AI Boom Looks a Lot Like the Housing Bubble

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/opinion/ai-bubble-financial-crisis-lehman.html
3•saikatsg•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Overengineered Monkeytype for Developers

https://www.osd-typ.in/
1•itsarnavsh•11m ago•0 comments

Fine-tuned Qwen on my 16gb GPU to respond without the letter e

https://kevin-wu.ca/blog/qwn/
1•k33wu•11m ago•0 comments

Elisp – Advantages of setting variables with setq instead of custom.el?

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/102/advantages-of-setting-variables-with-setq-instead-o...
1•Tomte•13m ago•0 comments

Bringing the Russian Woodpecker's Computer Back to Life [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUn3h4B5H14
1•fortran77•13m ago•0 comments

The penguins are noisy, the people fantastic – being an Antarctic postmaster

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6dxwklr409eo
1•mellosouls•14m ago•0 comments

Inhouseticket Like ClickUp and Jira

https://inhouseticket.com
1•herrlen•15m ago•0 comments

The Hidden Economy of Your Internet Connection

https://spur.us/blog/hidden-economy-residential-proxies
1•m-hodges•15m ago•0 comments

Flint · free browser streaming software for Twitch, an OBS alternative

https://flint.cam/
2•xnx•18m ago•0 comments

Remixing Music to Treat Alzheimer's

https://jajoo.sh/gamma
1•jajoosam•18m ago•0 comments

MagicaVoxel

https://ephtracy.github.io/
1•evo_9•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is the main bottleneck facing Agentic AI today?

2•Francis221•19m ago•1 comments

Analyzing Emacs News: 564 posts over 11 years

https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/analyzing-emacs-news/
1•srijan4•23m ago•0 comments

Micron skipping planned NAND generation

https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/10/22/micron-skipping-planned-nand-generation/5304729
1•rbanffy•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Mined crypto on Azure when I was 13, after 12y still cannot open account

1•realaccfromPL•27m ago•0 comments

Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf
3•zahrevsky•28m ago•1 comments

If You're So Smart, Then Why Are You So Poor? Russia's 1990s Revisited

https://ninabyzantina.com/2015/11/19/if-youre-so-smart-then-why-are-you-so-poor-russias-1990s-rev...
1•g1184•28m ago•1 comments

FirstTake – an open-source Claude Code skill for video shoots, offload to master

https://github.com/emersonsklar/firsttake
1•emersonsklr•30m ago•0 comments

Replace Jupyter Notebook with Emacs Org Mode (2023)

https://michaelneuper.com/posts/replace-jupyter-notebook-with-emacs-org-mode/
1•Tomte•36m ago•0 comments

How we made our MMDB files a 33% smaller

https://ipinfo.io/blog/how-made-mmdb-files-smaller
2•mmaia•38m ago•0 comments

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/
76•Tomte•40m ago•6 comments

Fuck Nuance (2015)

https://crookedtimber.org/2015/08/31/fuck-nuance/
9•bariumbitmap•45m ago•1 comments

Show HN: AppNetPlotter – See how your Windows apps' connections are performing

https://github.com/winnie264/AppNetPlotter
1•suwapat•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A roguelike game with Vim motions and a "modal shotgun"

https://sebastiancarlos.github.io/hacker-fables-game/
1•httbs•48m ago•0 comments

ContextPod

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/contextpod-move-ai-chats/dgchalabofdmnpkfocaiijcnbkgkpkhd
1•sahilitup•50m ago•1 comments

Apple Watch's Disasterous Update

https://aperocky.com/blog/post.html?slug=apple-watch-sucks
3•Aperocky•50m ago•0 comments