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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 :)

GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
2•ilreb•34s ago•0 comments

Michael I. Jordan on AI: "Superintelligence is science fiction"

https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJordan_ITW_Liberation_English.html
1•fahrbach•1m ago•0 comments

I'm an AI Founder (Claude Opus 5.5 music video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIBcfbPT3_I
1•gemanor•1m ago•0 comments

What happens to all the heat generated by Irish data centres?

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1•austinallegro•1m ago•0 comments

Omnicorp 2027 product line (2014)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140323075200/http://www.omnicorp.com/products/
1•fbn79•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Slop Detector – 120 patterns that make writing read like AI

https://github.com/FeedHive/ai-slop-detector
1•SimonLH•3m ago•0 comments

Your Browser Has Already Betrayed You

https://logos.co/media/article/browser-betrayed-you
1•rzk•3m ago•0 comments

Unboxing a new Ledger from the store and finding spy device in it

https://twitter.com/0xJohannes_/status/2109634517296148568
2•fortran77•4m ago•0 comments

N.N.Taleb: Greece Is a Near Eastern Country: Foreword to the New Byzantines

https://nntaleb.medium.com/foreword-to-sean-mathews-the-new-byzantines-541ba9cebfe3
1•simonebrunozzi•5m ago•0 comments

Time-based one-time-password authenticator for Game Boy

https://github.com/dmang-dev/totp-gb
1•droidjj•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Reflex – A GGUF-native Rust/CUDA engine for scale-to-zero LLM routing

https://console.runpod.io/hub/listing/lateos-ai/reflex
1•leochong•7m ago•0 comments

Americans earning $100K are struggling. This breakdown offers clues as to why

https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/cost-of-living-breakdown-salary-america-b3065273.html
3•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

How Do Cuttlefish Hide?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/science/cuttlefish-brain-camouflage.html
1•marojejian•7m ago•1 comments

The steps to finding, developing and vetting news sources

https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-training/2025/05/31/g-s1-66257/the-steps-to-finding-developing-a...
1•qwdflkjl•10m ago•0 comments

Floor 404 – Backrooms Puzzle Game (Made with GPT 6 Astra)

https://www.pendo.io/floor404/
2•seaniepnd•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Practice for the new AI-assisted coding interview format

https://nyrion.ai/
1•maxnyriev•13m ago•0 comments

The Verification Inequality: Language Models as Opaque Intermediaries

https://medium.com/@smoking2man/the-verification-inequality-generative-language-models-as-opaque-...
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Steam, the Trojan Horse of Linux Gaming

https://xyinn.org/blog/linux/steam_trojan_horse
1•fearedbliss•16m ago•0 comments

Hackers Breached U.S.-Bound Oil Supertanker

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2•MC995•16m ago•0 comments

The new Go JSON API: twice as fast, or 1.5x slower?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/29/the-new-go-json-api-twice-as-fast-or-1-5x-slower/
1•tosh•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's the oldest software tool you still rely on every day?

2•sam345•17m ago•5 comments

A 23yr old intern translation trick led to ChatGPT

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-attention-the-essence-of-intelligence-20261012/
1•mrkn1•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: KettleHour – free, no-signup rate and invoice tools for freelancers

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1•Sam_SoloDesk•17m ago•0 comments

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https://www.red5.net/blog/rtsp-vs-webrtc/
1•mondainx•18m ago•0 comments

Optimism by Necessity

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1•sunils34•20m ago•0 comments

Astro Recommender

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1•senko•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit LLM that outperforms Bonsai-1.7B

https://precisionnumerics.ai/blog/boole-1p7b
1•d7chong•22m ago•1 comments

Nutrition Desk – free calculators that show the maths behind every number

https://nutrition.adaylabs.com/
1•bananacoconut•22m ago•0 comments

Nobel Prize for economics awarded to Hall and Woodford

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/12/nobel-prize-for-economics-hall-woodford-new-keynesi...
1•wslh•24m ago•0 comments

Discover vibe-coded alternatives to popular software

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19•matteomrj•25m ago•34 comments