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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•8mo ago

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kuberwastaken•8mo 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 :)

Shapeshifting materials could power next generation of soft robots

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-shapeshifting-materials-power-generation-soft.html
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kloak – a privacy-first Discord alternative with no email or passwords

https://kloak.app/
1•lakshikag•3m ago•0 comments

Sylve – Modern Bhyve Virtualization and Clustering on FreeBS

https://gyptazy.com/blog/sylve-a-proxmox-alike-webui-for-bhyve-on-freebsd/
1•indigodaddy•3m ago•0 comments

The future of work when work is meaningless

https://letters.thedankoe.com/p/the-future-of-work-when-work-is-meaningless
2•saikatsg•4m ago•0 comments

ollama launch

https://ollama.com/blog/launch
2•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

We are experiencing an issue with Gmail beginning on Saturday, 2026-01-24 13:02

https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ
3•donutshop•6m ago•2 comments

Agent is building things you'll never use

https://mahdiyusuf.com/your-agent-is-building-things-youll-never-use/
3•googletron•7m ago•0 comments

Discourse Poison Fountain

https://github.com/elmuerte/discourse-poison-fountain
2•atomic128•7m ago•1 comments

I made a CLI tool that turns free Gemini into a local AI agent

https://pypi.org/project/gemcli/
2•bossTheCross•7m ago•1 comments

Surviving the Crawlers

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/surviving-the-crawlers
2•homebrewer•11m ago•0 comments

Is Greenland in danger of being overrun by Russia and China?

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/greenland-russians-chinese-nato-8q6pvgdx6
2•lysace•12m ago•2 comments

Progress in Graph Processing (2015)

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-12-24.md
2•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001)

https://tuxnes.sourceforge.net/gamegenie.html
2•PaulHoule•13m ago•0 comments

We won't need CI in 5 years

https://thefridaydeploy.substack.com/p/we-wont-need-ci-in-5-years
3•telliott1984•14m ago•0 comments

Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
24•oceansky•14m ago•13 comments

Joe Rogan Experience #2443 – Filippo Biondi [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhaz6vd4nSI
2•keepamovin•15m ago•0 comments

E9p – pure Erlang 9p implementation

https://tangled.org/hauleth.dev/e9p
4•todsacerdoti•15m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Another innocent person was killed by ICE in Minneapolis today

14•akersten•18m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Similar to Brex what are some crazy company pivots no one talks about

2•nemath•20m ago•0 comments

The Challenges of Developing for Microsoft SharePoint

https://medium.com/@jordansrowles/why-developing-for-microsoft-sharepoint-is-a-horrible-terrible-...
2•birdculture•21m ago•0 comments

Are we all plagiarists now?

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/01/22/are-we-all-plagiarists-now
27•pseudolus•24m ago•8 comments

Structural Representation Is Analog Representation

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27929/
2•chbint•25m ago•1 comments

Icebase: PostgreSQL-Stored Iceberg Metadata

https://medium.com/@udaysagar.2177/storing-apache-iceberg-metadata-in-postgresql-a-custom-fileio-...
2•jordepic•26m ago•1 comments

Edsger Dijkstra – Discipline in Thought [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0w1MJHxStg
2•eamag•27m ago•0 comments

Deadly bat-borne virus with no cure is spreading in India

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15494355/Deadly-bat-borne-virus-no-cure-spreading-India-...
3•Bender•27m ago•1 comments

Laracasts is adopting AI instead of normal coding and programming [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Bvo0tsD9s
3•ssenssei•28m ago•0 comments

China shuts down Elon Musk's claim that Tesla FSD will be approved next month

https://electrek.co/2026/01/23/china-shuts-down-elon-musks-claim-that-tesla-fsd-will-be-approved-...
7•Bender•30m ago•0 comments

Infotainment, EV Charger Exploits Earn Hackers $1M at Pwn2Own Automotive 2026

https://www.securityweek.com/infotainment-ev-charger-exploits-earn-hackers-1m-at-pwn2own-automoti...
2•Bender•33m ago•1 comments

MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40k Music Videos and Commercials

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/mtv-rewind-lets-you-revisit-40000-music-videos-commercials-fr...
4•doener•34m ago•0 comments

A Great Betrayal: 300 Pieces of SIlver

https://anthonyamore.substack.com/p/a-great-betrayal-300-pieces-of-silver
1•anthonyamore•35m ago•0 comments