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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•11mo ago

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kuberwastaken•11mo 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 :)

Show HN: Astrial – Spherical Go on a Snub Dodecahedron

https://astrial.app
1•mingli_yuan•30s ago•0 comments

A Glimpse into the Future of Software Development

https://saturnino.substack.com/p/out-of-the-loop
1•lrsaturnino•9m ago•0 comments

Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

https://iczelia.net/posts/e16-20-year-old-bug/
3•snoofydude•11m ago•0 comments

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Saying Goodbye to Agile

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Agents as Scaffolding for Recurring Tasks

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The Economic Value of Eliminating Cancer

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35052
2•paulpauper•27m ago•0 comments

The Economist Is Putting Names (and Faces) to Its Magazine

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1•paulpauper•28m ago•0 comments

The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)

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1•axiomdata316•28m ago•1 comments

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1•Cider9986•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Firefox Sidebar Local LLM

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/firefox-ai
1•modinfo•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fz.ax – Four thousand weeks of your life, as hexagons

https://fz.ax
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Feature Request: Support Agents.md. #6235

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1•gz09•36m ago•0 comments

A tax revolt is under way in America

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1•andsoitis•39m ago•1 comments

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https://demos.connectai.blog/quantization_blog.html
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Photocatalytic Water Splitting

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1•aragonite•51m ago•0 comments

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9•1659447091•53m ago•3 comments

The disappearance of old Tokyo businesses

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1•razorbeamz•54m ago•0 comments

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Decline in U.S. overdose deaths threatened by changing street drug supply

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1•1659447091•1h ago•0 comments

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3•spaghettifythis•1h ago•1 comments

The Stern-Gerlach Experiment (1967)[video]

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1•nill0•1h ago•0 comments

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https://www.bscsbench.com/
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Bessent: Order requiring banks to collect citizenship information in process

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1•KnuthIsGod•1h ago•0 comments

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GPT-5.4 Pro solves Erdős Problem #1196

https://twitter.com/i/status/2044051379916882067
2•fratellobigio•1h ago•1 comments