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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 :)

USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/01/politics/usps-whistleblower-mail-ballot-rules-trump
1•GrinningFool•23s ago•0 comments

Ajeya Cotra – The OpenAI/Hugging Face story, told by one of the investigators [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50zezLFWWI
1•tosh•59s ago•0 comments

Maniquest Launch

https://maniquest.com
1•maniquest•1m ago•1 comments

'Humongous' marmot crowned winner in inaugural Fat Marmot Week contest

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/30/marmot-winner-fat-marmot-week-contest
1•ohjeez•1m ago•0 comments

A Million Kakapos

https://blog.mempko.com/a-million-kakapos/
1•mempko•2m ago•0 comments

DEF CON 34 – ESP32 as counter-surveillance platform [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcK-TDmzshc
1•skibz•2m ago•0 comments

AirPoint – Turn your phone into a wireless PC trackpad and presenter

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airpoint.remote&hl=en_US
1•prabinkhokhali•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Fastest Local H3 Video Generation on Mac

https://github.com/tgo-app-dev/vpipe
1•t-go•4m ago•0 comments

Alma, a Voice LLM That's 63% Faster and 84% Cheaper Than OpenAI

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/phonely-launches-alma-voice-llm-130200496.html
1•ysabri•4m ago•0 comments

EMVCo Requests Feedback on Agentic Payments Framework

https://www.emvco.com/news/emvco-requests-feedback-on-framework-for-secure-interoperable-and-scal...
1•nilen•4m ago•0 comments

How engineered microbes could help feed the world's crops

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/01/1143195/microbe-fertilizer-switch-bioworks/
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

pstack

https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/docs/guide/README.md
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

Thinking about Software Freedom

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2026/software-freedom/
1•edward•5m ago•0 comments

Trump has asked Apple to change Lake Ontario name to 'Lake America' on its maps

https://apnews.com/article/apple-lake-ontario-america-trump-93232341c99a10d35338d3f1afd54171
1•ripe•6m ago•0 comments

Wacksy: a Rust library for writing WACZ collections

https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2025/12/17/introducing-wacksy-a-library-fo...
1•toomuchtodo•9m ago•1 comments

A High Performance Neural Network for Energy-Efficient Copyright Violation [pdf]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/em-tg/laundercat/refs/heads/master/laundercat.pdf
1•em-tg•9m ago•1 comments

Dyson CameraJet Toothbrush

https://www.dyson.com/oral-care/electric-toothbrush/camerajet/ceramic-pink-set
1•mudil•10m ago•0 comments

How CMIP7 will shape the next wave of climate science

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-cmip7-will-shape-the-next-wave-of-climate-science
1•barbazoo•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Orthogonal – One integration for agents to discover and pay for APIs

https://www.orthogonal.com/
2•berasogut•10m ago•0 comments

Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users

https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/work_items/1566
2•erikvanoosten•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Nosedive – plan and drive work in all your repos from one notes repo

https://nosedive.dev
1•sycdan•11m ago•0 comments

Building the Open Task Light

https://jamesbvaughan.com/open-task-light/
1•jamesbvaughan•12m ago•1 comments

Muse Code: New plans and features

https://developer.meta.com/ai/resources/blog/muse-code-new-plans-and-features/
2•gosukiwi•12m ago•1 comments

A Bicycle for the Mind

https://pulkomandy.tk/_/_Life/_A%20bicycle%20for%20the%20mind
1•wrxd•13m ago•0 comments

Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/dwarf-fortress-creator-says-the-industrys-in-shambles-ove...
1•Limb•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ship app updates without App Store reviews

https://www.otakit.app/
1•garymiklos•14m ago•0 comments

Cascading pipelines with DSPy are kind of good

https://martnquesada.github.io/blog/2026/01/cascading-pipelines-with-dspy-are-kind-of-good/
1•jxub•14m ago•0 comments

How AI code review is changing pull requests

https://themainthread.substack.com/p/how-ai-code-review-changing-pull-request
1•alediaferia•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Signfile – e-signatures with SHA-256 fingerprints, $19/mo unlimited

https://signfile.io/
1•abdullah_eldoud•14m ago•0 comments

Job Loss Fears in the First Years of Generative Artificial Intelligence

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5136877&__cf_chl_tk=2WJamtftqdfDIR9yFfYIrEBu9...
1•paulpauper•14m ago•0 comments