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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 :)

Federal loan support cut for degree programs that lead to low wages

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-22/low-paying-degrees-federal-student-loan-cutof...
1•anigbrowl•28s ago•0 comments

S-OS V-RAM Engine – 8MB virtual memory on a $1.50 ESP32 without PSRAM

https://github.com/StepanoskiZ/vram-engine-esp32
1•ZStepanoski•47s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Yanes, yet another NES audio plugin:LinuxCLAP polyphonic chiptune synth

https://github.com/andrewfader/yanes
1•androsynth89•58s ago•0 comments

Dev proves LLMs will run on anything, even a $10 microcontroller

https://www.theregister.com/edge-and-iot/2026/08/04/dev-proves-llms-will-run-on-anything-even-a-1...
1•Bender•1m ago•0 comments

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/china-turns-up-the-heat-with-open-model-blitz-as...
1•Bender•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Movie scores from what people say when nobody's asking

https://skipthecritics.com
1•LevelTenMedia•2m ago•0 comments

Trump forced to reinstate broadband grants, court lets US scrap race criteria

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-forced-to-reinstate-broadband-grants-but-court-...
1•Bender•2m ago•0 comments

EA Is Now a Private Company

https://www.theverge.com/games/974736/ea-private-company-deal-closed
1•choult•3m ago•0 comments

AI Pets Are Here [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIfmUHiMN3U
1•britcruise•4m ago•0 comments

Speed Above All Else

https://twitter.com/Alfred_Lin/status/2084636778791858256
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

Yet Another OpenCode Plugin

https://npmjs.com/package/yet-another-opencode-plugin
1•smokeeaasd•6m ago•0 comments

Fiddler Classic Changes License: Noncommercial Use Only, 45 Days to Comply

https://www.telerik.com/purchase/license-agreement/fiddler
1•tech234a•7m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet

https://blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/
2•hahahaa•7m ago•0 comments

3D Printing Agentic Automation

https://praveenvijayan.substack.com/p/3d-print-automation-text-a-link-get
2•praveenvijayan•9m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?

1•exabrial•10m ago•0 comments

Where the Automation Has to Stop

https://yusufaytas.com/where-the-automation-has-to-stop
7•montrealish•10m ago•0 comments

The 'dean of valuation' says pain is headed for more AI companies soon

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-stock-market-correction-dean-of-valuation-aswath-damodaran-2026-8
1•mapping365•11m ago•0 comments

Personal computer is not that personal

https://prahaladhchandrahasan.github.io/thoughts/your-personal-computer-is-not-that-personal/
1•pdawg0518•12m ago•0 comments

Uber's Autonomous Vehicle Strategy: Slow Their Adoption

https://www.wired.com/story/ubers-autonomous-vehicle-strategy-slow-their-adoption/
1•dmitriy_ko•15m ago•0 comments

Should designers publicly share killed or speculative work?

https://benbarry.com/writing/should-designers-publicly-share-killed-or-speculative-work
1•herbertl•16m ago•0 comments

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2•Sidhant_ch•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A search engine for VPS servers with an automatic crawler pipeline

https://vpspricetracker.com
1•davidebaldini•18m ago•0 comments

Codes, Chess and Kubrick: The Life of Jack Good – GCHQ

https://www.gchq.gov.uk/information/codes-chess-and-kubrick-life-jack-good
1•rbanffy•19m ago•0 comments

Data centers have a politics problem

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/01/data-centers-have-a-politics-problem-and-industry-knows-...
1•mapping365•19m ago•0 comments

Success of New Federal Housing Law Rests on States and Localities

https://ifp.org/the-success-of-the-new-federal-housing-law-now-rests-on-states-and-localities/
3•atlasunshrugged•19m ago•0 comments

Count Binface: Britain's 'joke' election candidates should be taken seriously

https://theconversation.com/count-binface-why-britains-joke-election-candidates-deserve-to-be-tak...
4•samizdis•20m ago•0 comments

Resistance grows nationwide against AI data center boom

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/resistance-grows-nationwide-against-ai-data-center-boom/
4•mapping365•20m ago•0 comments

An AI voice agent running locally on a $50 Arduino uno Q

https://projecthub.arduino.cc/neelbuilds/build-a-voice-based-kiosk-for-retail-store-using-moorche...
3•supportm•20m ago•0 comments

Could You Still Be "You" Without a Single Memory?

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=1501
1•01-_-•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mcpscore – validate any MCP server compliance with a new MCP version

https://github.com/mcp-box/mcpscore
1•alex_akimov•21m ago•0 comments