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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 :)

Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme

https://docs.pasteurlabs.ai/projects/tesseract-core/latest/blog/2026-07-09-enzyme-lfortran-autodi...
1•dionhaefner•30s ago•1 comments

Cutia: Open-source video editing tools like CapCut that can be used in a browser

https://cutia.msgbyte.com/en
1•nogajun•1m ago•0 comments

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/nearby-glasses-new-app-alerts-you-wearing-smart-glasses-surveil...
1•_tk_•4m ago•0 comments

gRPC-Web Should Have Fixed gRPC

https://kmcd.dev/posts/grpc-web-should-have-fixed-grpc/
1•ingve•5m ago•0 comments

Don't change lanes – the maths of holiday traffic jams

https://theconversation.com/dont-change-lanes-the-maths-of-holiday-traffic-jams-287389
1•samizdis•6m ago•0 comments

The Growing Self-Reliance of Chinese Innovation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26470
1•speckx•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: IChingPortal – Keyword search and news aggregator using the I Ching

https://ichingportal.com/
1•richcostello68•8m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Up/downvotes for comments on HN are silently ignored when using Tor

1•fsflover•10m ago•0 comments

Everynoise – comprehensive music genre exporer with samples

https://everynoise.com/
2•xelxebar•11m ago•0 comments

Google's Hassabis calls for new US-led global AI watchdog "before year end"

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/14/demis-hassabis-ai-regulation-google-deepmind
1•simonpure•11m ago•0 comments

Google's Gemini is sued for summarizing a Hungarian news article

https://mrkt30.com/dolphins-ai-and-copyright-the-strange-case-heading-to-europes-top-court/
2•emsidisii•12m ago•0 comments

Red cards have more than tripled since the last World Cup, data show

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-red-cards-tripled-world-cup.html
2•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

Open-Source Reflect Rewrite

https://github.com/team-reflect/reflect-open
2•swah•13m ago•1 comments

Squiggle: A minimalist programming language for probabilistic estimation

https://www.squiggle-language.com/docs
1•theblazehen•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: bigdraw, a big shared canvas anyone can draw on

https://bigdraw.party/
1•alexpls•13m ago•0 comments

Notes on Network Signal Congestion Control

https://dipsingh.github.io/NSCC-Deep-Dive/
1•ankitg12•13m ago•0 comments

Equana – Numerical Computing

https://equana.dev/
1•quebi•14m ago•0 comments

SQLite Is All You Need

https://www.dbpro.app/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need
4•upmostly•15m ago•0 comments

WorkerDeck – Run one isolated background process per user (Python, zero deps)

https://github.com/gritfeld-design/workerdeck
1•Reiney•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Parametric 3D models created using JavaScript

https://muffinman.io/3d-models/
1•stanko•16m ago•0 comments

Most intellectual labour is proof of work

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/pow
3•ibobev•16m ago•0 comments

Intuition for Distribution Differences

https://entropicthoughts.com/distribution-differences
1•ibobev•17m ago•0 comments

Sorted Rank Coding

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/sorted-rank-coding/
1•ibobev•17m ago•0 comments

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (1890) [pdf]

https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Whistler_Gentle_Art_of_Making_Enemies.pdf
1•jruohonen•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: AI mock-interview coach that scores how you sound, not just your words

https://www.stanrose.com/mondaus
2•mondaussupport•19m ago•0 comments

Kittygram – An anonymous, privacy-friendly and open-source Instagram front end

https://kittygr.am/
3•keks24•19m ago•1 comments

The database wars and where LLMs are (maybe) headed

https://rruxandra.github.io/the-database-in-the-room.html
2•rruxandra_l•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GitBiased – your team development dashboard

https://gitbiased.com/
2•skyfantom•21m ago•0 comments

Org Charts of the Big Tech Companies (2011)

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big-tech-companies-plus-an-enhancement/
2•surprisetalk•21m ago•0 comments

What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers?

https://www.seangoedecke.com/playing-politics/
8•mltvc•22m ago•1 comments