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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 :)

Anthropic can't reliably control its AI agents, cuts internet access

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-cant-reliably-control-its-ai-agents-its-cutting-off-i...
1•sbulaev•2m ago•0 comments

The hazy OpenAI growth metric driving Wall Street

https://www.ft.com/content/62653892-2333-4953-a8d5-cfd760ae3257
1•sbulaev•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Printable Calendar

https://printcalendarx.com/
1•artiomartiom•5m ago•0 comments

PhotoCraft Online – A browser editor with English guides

https://photocraftonline.org/
1•visiohex•14m ago•0 comments

Study on AI coding agents finds gains "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
3•evolve2k•14m ago•1 comments

A Rant About Two Things: AI and the People Who Rant About AI

https://www.patreon.com/FluffyQuack/posts/rant-about-two-168230683
1•turpentine•14m ago•0 comments

The Power of Constraint Solvers

https://btmc.substack.com/p/the-awesome-power-of-constraint-solvers
1•sirwhinesalot•15m ago•0 comments

Phone 18 Pro in Everyday Life: Upgrades That Matter – and the Ones You Can Skip

https://thetechboom.com/2026/10/10/iphone-18-pro-everyday-life-real-benefits-australia/
1•ninyeh•20m ago•0 comments

Careless People: An entertaining book with few surprises

https://piotrmzakrzewski.substack.com/p/careless-people-an-entertaining-book
1•gieksosz•22m ago•0 comments

Mac.apk – Run Android Apps Natively on Apple Silicon Macs

https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk-Releases
2•phantomathkg•24m ago•0 comments

Tesla Renames FSD to 'Assisted Driving' in Europe

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-renames-full-self-driving-assisted-dr...
1•JumpCrisscross•24m ago•0 comments

Zeroization, part 1: Wiping can make things worse

https://00f.net/2026/10/06/zeroization-1/
1•birdculture•25m ago•0 comments

I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/i-expect-rapid-progress-but-not-towards
1•pretext•32m ago•1 comments

I Made Diablo First Person [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkpLG9keQF0
1•skibz•34m ago•0 comments

The Download: AI's refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/09/1146250/the-download-ai-refusal-problem-weight-loss-d...
1•joozio•34m ago•0 comments

Could Nigerian eateries become as widespread as Chinese restaurants?

https://www.cnn.com/world/africa/could-nigerian-restaurants-become-as-common-as-chinese-restauran...
1•koolhead17•37m ago•0 comments

Alan Turing – Intelligent Machinery, a Heretical Theory (1951)

https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/publications-lectures-and-talks-amtb/amt-b-4
1•yshklarov•38m ago•0 comments

Unauthorized access, personal data leaks surge in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/news/20261007de55671/
1•phantomathkg•42m ago•0 comments

Cyril Hilsum invented the flat-screen displays that hold us in thrall

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/10/08/cyril-hilsum-invented-the-flat-screen-displays-that...
2•sohkamyung•44m ago•0 comments

Encore CloudOps

https://encore.dev
2•handfuloflight•46m ago•0 comments

Zulu Assistant – an ops board and agent workforce for your Mac

https://github.com/zulu-assistant/zulu-assistant
2•mswart427•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nostos – A self-hosted home for reading, notes, and writing

https://github.com/Christian-Gennari/Nostos
1•CalmReader96•47m ago•0 comments

3D structure of DNA may explain how cephalopods evolved complex brains

https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/3d-structure-of-dna-may-explain-how-cephalopods-evolved-c...
1•geox•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Konnextions – A local-or-online contact-centre dialer and CRM

https://konnextions.marketingstudios.in/
1•ms_by_pd•53m ago•0 comments

Meet Bibi: We're Building a Voice-Controlled Robot

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dQeFn7aHyGc
1•aufklarer•55m ago•0 comments

Rat's Register Allocator

https://hexrat.cc/pages/blog/2026_10_07
1•mpweiher•59m ago•0 comments

OpenAIRE Innovation

https://innovation.openaire.eu//
2•T-A•1h ago•0 comments

Building AI agents? You're probably overpaying for infrastructure

https://withruntime.com/
3•shermansingh•1h ago•0 comments

The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I've Ever Seen (2021)

https://words.filippo.io/telegram-ecdh/
2•theanonymousone•1h ago•1 comments

Bun 1.4.3

https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4.3
2•thetallgeek•1h ago•0 comments