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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 :)

Testtospeech.com – New leaderboard adds balance and removes bias

https://texttospeech.com/
1•imemily•43s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zmina – clipboard with per-app paste transforms

https://zmina.app/
1•0-3•58s ago•0 comments

Product.now

https://product.now
1•luispa•1m ago•0 comments

Life finds a way OpenAI claims partial pause and rolls out ChatGPT for Teens

https://aistop.watch/p/life-finds-a-way
1•Bluestein•1m ago•0 comments

Landing the Plane

https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/growth/landing-the-plane/
1•LaSombra•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Store Front For Vibe coded apps

https://yaadops.com/explore
1•ShamarWebster•2m ago•0 comments

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_%2B_Data_Structures_%3D_Programs
1•tosh•2m ago•0 comments

The Data Center Capital of the World [video]

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000011066777/inside-the-data-center-capital-of-the-world.html
1•donohoe•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Calorie Trackers

1•solsane•2m ago•0 comments

What is inference engineering? Deepdive

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/what-is-inference-engineering
1•luispa•2m ago•0 comments

The Hermès heist: how an heir to the dynasty was swindled out of $15B of shares

https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/12/11/the-hermes-heist-how-an-heir-to-the-luxury-dynasty-was-...
1•geneticdrifts•2m ago•0 comments

Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html
1•CommonGuy•3m ago•0 comments

X262: X264 with MPEG-2 Support

https://github.com/kierank/x262
1•ksec•3m ago•0 comments

The two largest reservoirs in the US have hit record-low levels

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the-two-largest-reservoirs-in-the-us-have-hit-record-low-levels
1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

Does daycare damage children's brains?

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/daycare-barely-matters
1•momentmaker•6m ago•0 comments

Zeno: A local AI tool that runs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on MacBooks

https://icosa.co/zeno
1•baranmelik•8m ago•0 comments

China mission aims for the Moon's hidden water with 'hopping' probe

https://www.science.org/content/article/china-mission-aims-moon-s-hidden-water-hopping-probe
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Impolite Spiders

https://sheep.horse/2026/8/impolite_spiders.html
1•surprisetalk•8m ago•0 comments

Prompt caching makes self-consistency cheap for long-context LLMs

https://medium.com/@mohitsinghchauhan/prompt-caching-makes-self-consistency-cheap-for-long-contex...
1•mohitcek•10m ago•0 comments

Google, Apple, Samsung integrating data from wearables into healthcare

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/business/dealbook/wearables-healthcare.html
4•brandonb•10m ago•0 comments

Gonewatch – get emailed if a backup or cron never ran

https://www.gonewatch.com
1•makgabri•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?

1•elar_verole•11m ago•1 comments

Field Notes from an AI Society

https://asteriskmag.substack.com/p/field-notes-from-an-ai-society
1•theptip•11m ago•0 comments

Find jobs with Claude Code CLI

https://github.com/AdanRott/magnificent-jobs-plugin
1•DamiandeGroot•12m ago•0 comments

Vertical Rhythm in Web Design

https://rijks.website/blog/260818a-vertical-rhythm/
3•haynesben•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Flatbias – A Polyhedral Puzzle

https://flatbias.com/
3•tk6879•13m ago•0 comments

AI Agents that are Portable

https://nexusrun.dev/
1•lseidman1104•13m ago•0 comments

The Wisdom of the Galaxy by Will McMahon

https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/the-wisdom-of-the-galaxy/
1•speckx•17m ago•0 comments

Anders Hejlsberg: 10x Faster TypeScript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cywK3XYYJ2o
4•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

We built our own hiring platform (and ate our own dog food in the process)

https://blog.pagelove.com/posts/building-our-own-hiring-platform.html
1•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments