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elect.horse is a daily puzzle game where players draw equal-sized voting districts on a hex grid to engineer a win for a horse candidate who is losing the popular vote to a cow, donkey and goat. The game runs in-browser and requires JavaScript to play.
Hex has raised $100 million in new funding to support a from-scratch redesign of its product, used by more than 2,500 customers. The company says it rebuilt its architecture, data model and compute engine to be 'agent native,' moving away from bolting AI features onto its original 2019-era platform.
The developer behind the ImHex hex editor wrote a tutorial demonstrating how to reverse-engineer an undocumented binary file format, using the 2012 game FEZ's save file as the example. The walkthrough shows how to move from raw hex bytes to a complete structure definition written in ImHex's Pattern Language, a feature available on the free, open-source, cross-platform tool.
The developer of the bine hex editor explored adding colorized output similar to Vim's xxd, but found that per-character coloring was too costly under the ncurses-based movwin TUI framework. Instead, bine now uses special block characters (▓ for NUL bytes, ░ for non-printable bytes) in the ASCII column to visually distinguish text from binary data without expensive per-cell rendering calls.