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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 :)

27x Faster Terminal Text Effects Rust Port

https://github.com/omacom-io/ttfx
1•smusamashah•4m ago•0 comments

Muse Glimmer

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/10/introducing-muse-glimmer/
3•raybb•4m ago•0 comments

HN is good for marketing other than communication or study!?

3•lilerjee•5m ago•0 comments

Demon's souls prototype presentation for gameshare iv [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVK_rc-tnGY
2•andrekandre•6m ago•1 comments

Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/08/10/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-and-thunderbird-...
3•csmantle•6m ago•0 comments

Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10319-8
2•Phithagoras•9m ago•0 comments

Teaching an Open Model to Do Science

https://www.arcee.ai/blog/teaching-an-open-model-to-do-science
2•gmays•10m ago•0 comments

VSCode-code-widgets: Interactive widgets embedded in source code

https://github.com/CZDanol/vscode-code-widgets
2•thunderbong•13m ago•0 comments

'We Did Our Best': Metaphors of Parenting and AI

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/06/25/we-did-our-best-ai-meghan-ogieblyn/
2•mitchbob•18m ago•1 comments

Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/10/why-my-father-is-wrong-a-defense-of-guitar-hero/
3•Tomte•18m ago•0 comments

Don't Classify. Hallucinate

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08/10/hypothetical-classifications.html
2•Tomte•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedle, daily -dle for Minecraft seeds

https://seedle.loch.tools/
2•lwansbrough•24m ago•0 comments

Plethora – your new (social) platform for Interactive Media

https://plethora.studio/
2•zenarin•24m ago•1 comments

A Technical Framework for Bring Your Own Cloud Applications

https://byocanywhere.org/
2•aloknnikhil•32m ago•0 comments

Pretense of You

https://iamwisdom.substack.com/p/pretense-of-you
2•I_Am_Wisdom•33m ago•0 comments

Wingdings (Album) 2026

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingdings_(album)
3•ddxv•38m ago•1 comments

Hatsune Miku

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku
2•palad1n•44m ago•0 comments

Meilisearch vs. Manticore: Setting the Record Straight

https://medium.com/@s_nikolaev/meilisearch-vs-manticore-setting-the-record-straight-e7d51aa08db2
2•snikolaev•45m ago•0 comments

Call centres using AI to 'whiten' Indian accents (2025)

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/call-centres-using-ai-whiten-090000847.html
5•vismit2000•47m ago•2 comments

Kredit – Real-time Risk Intelligence for Agents

https://kredit.sh/
3•jacobrafati•49m ago•1 comments

Mindscape: Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans Are Cognitive Cousins

https://preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/08/10/363-chandra-sripada-on-how-llms-and-humans-ar...
3•wwarner•1h ago•1 comments

TLabel – A unified annotation format and converter for tactile robotics datasets

https://github.com/liesliy/tlabel
2•liesliy•1h ago•0 comments

US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-secret-flight-nato-return
40•Jimmc414•1h ago•21 comments

"Operator, can you hear me?" A Faithful Line into the UNISOC Baseband

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07143
3•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments

Meghan O'Gieblyn: Against Slop

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/07/11/against-slop-meghan-ogieblyn/
4•mitchbob•1h ago•1 comments

Capture the Flag

https://unik.cx/ctf/index.html
2•eyberg•1h ago•0 comments

One of China's workhorse rockets just exploded in flight

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/one-of-chinas-workhorse-rockets-just-exploded-in-flight/
3•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

Musk's Daily Starship Problem

https://tmfassociates.com/blog/2026/08/10/musks-daily-starship-problem/
6•TheAlchemist•1h ago•0 comments

Ambulance defibrillators removed from sale, still on the road

https://www.theage.com.au/national/confusion-and-concern-nsw-ambulance-defibrillators-removed-fro...
3•Alien1Being•1h ago•0 comments

How to Keep Thinking

https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-keep-thinking/
6•vismit2000•1h ago•0 comments