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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 :)

Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
3•muglug•2m ago•0 comments

Bending Spoons' Luca Ferrari says capital is no longer Europe's big barrier

https://thenextweb.com/news/bending-spoons-luca-ferrari-says-capital-is-no-longer-europes-big-bar...
1•T-A•3m ago•0 comments

Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/outstreaming-taylor-swift-is-easy-with-10k-bots-and-a...
1•Alephinitesimal•4m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Chloe is a TypeScript AI agent

https://chloejs.org/compare
1•carlosmartinezt•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SheetRelay – Google Sheets as a back end for web pages and AI agents

https://sheetrelay.com/
2•Amirso•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Play Netpanzer Compiled to WASM

https://netpanzer.io/play/
1•winrid•11m ago•0 comments

What today's software owes to Bronze Age clocks

https://planetscale.com/blog/leaky-buckets-in-software-explained
2•bddicken•11m ago•0 comments

WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload

https://tonym.us/wsl2-vs-wsl3-benchmarks.html
3•tonymet•11m ago•0 comments

Succinct Sounds-Like Starting Vowels

https://wiredream.com/vowels/
1•ingve•12m ago•0 comments

Energy Icons for the Energy Transition

https://energyicons.com/
2•ly0n•15m ago•0 comments

Scientists name ancient crocodile species

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/06/science/ancient-crocodile-egypt-great-sphinx
2•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

Smart Home Accessories

https://www.apple.com/shop/smart-home/accessories/homekit
1•kristianp•17m ago•0 comments

Dave W Plummer: "AI Cloning should be illegal"

https://twitter.com/davepl1968/status/2107875089446580273
2•estranhosidade•18m ago•3 comments

Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1097760/2be4d9e3eeb59039/
1•birdculture•23m ago•0 comments

AI companies say rivals are distilling their models and why it's so hard to stop

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-ai-model-distillation-and-why-is-it-so-hard-to...
3•ck2•23m ago•0 comments

Evaluating OCR on the Community Memory Corpus

https://ztoz.blog/posts/ocr-cm/
1•ingve•24m ago•0 comments

Local models and sandboxed tools coming soon to GitHub Copilot

https://commandline.microsoft.com/local-models-sandboxed-tools-github-windows/
1•lisajaloza•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TuxWhisper – Offline push-to-talk dictation for Linux, works on Wayland

https://github.com/ialmajai/tuxwhisper
2•ialmajai•25m ago•0 comments

Book Recommendations from Hacker News?

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/10/book-recommendations-from-hacker-news.html
2•bookofjoe•30m ago•0 comments

Geforce Now for Nintendo Switch

https://github.com/Blade-Punisher/SwitchNOW
2•unchar1•31m ago•0 comments

Software Factories Meet Agile

https://twitter.com/IgorZIJ/status/2107933158155186599
3•iacguy•32m ago•0 comments

Frontier AI Is Accelerating. Open Benchmarks Need to Keep Up

https://benchmarks.snorkel.ai/frontier-ai-is-accelerating-open-benchmarks-need-to-keep-up/
1•vincentschen•33m ago•0 comments

All the data sources for Apple Maps

https://gspe21-ssl.ls.apple.com/html/attribution-331.html
2•kaniksu•35m ago•0 comments

Visualizing the Change-of-Variables Rule in Probability

https://michaeljohncooper.com/writing/change-of-variables
1•coopermj•36m ago•1 comments

Claude now in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides

https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-now-works-in-google-docs-sheets-and-slides
2•dgf18•39m ago•2 comments

Top iPad Games for Apple Pencil (2020) [MrMacRight] [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=begjnhBleT0
1•zeristor•39m ago•1 comments

Ubuntu 26.10 Drops Btrfs, XFS and ZFS /Boot with Secure Boot

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-2610-secure-boot-grub-change
2•josephcsible•39m ago•0 comments

Anthropic is adding monthly API credits to Claude Max and Team subscriptions

https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2107895957933408429
2•bartekurbanski•41m ago•1 comments

Stop telling people to delete their social media

https://rmpr.xyz/Stop-telling-people-to-delete-their-social-media/
3•RMPR•41m ago•1 comments

Aim – Agentic Idea Management for Automated Research

https://imhgchoi.github.io/agentic-idea-manager/
1•gmays•41m ago•0 comments