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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 :)

Show HN: How religions evolved? Charts, Maps, Citations

https://howitevolved.com/chart/
1•silly073•2m ago•0 comments

Nonfiction Is Struggling. Publishers Are Making It Worse

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1•Michelangelo11•7m ago•0 comments

In the biotech world, you can't see everything

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1•joozio•17m ago•0 comments

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2•gitgud•21m ago•0 comments

A supercomputer is about to launch to the moon aboard a rover named FLIP

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3•pseudolus•23m ago•0 comments

Why moving sprites are slow

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1•gregjw•23m ago•0 comments

We used RCE on 3M PCs to prevent a botnet

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Desert Bus 2026

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2•saulapremium•26m ago•0 comments

The animals you can't outrun – and the ones you can

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2•cisc•30m ago•2 comments

Few Americans Say They Are Asking AI Chatbots for 2026 Election Information

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Damage Control

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https://github.com/nace-ai/kapitsa
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3•geox•46m ago•0 comments

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Two companies raised three in every ten venture dollars

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3•ghostfoxgod•1h ago•0 comments

Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge decompilation – rebuilding the lost source code

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1•nomilk•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: RetroBrag – remix Snake, Pong and Breakout by describing the change

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That AI Temptation

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The attack chain behind the v1.107.0 LiteLLM release

https://docs.litellm.ai/blog/security-incident-oct-21-2026-attack-chain
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The Acceleration Paradox

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2•Aldus551•1h ago•0 comments