Linux Fu: The Local Phonebook
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/linux-fu-the-local-phonebook/

I’ll admit it: I miss the simplicity of /etc/hosts. There was something elegant about it. You wanted laserprinter to mean 192.168.1.40, so you opened a text file and wrote: 192.168.1.40 …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/linux-fu-the-local-phonebook/)

Hacking Amazon Echo Show 8 3rd Gen via UART and eMMC
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/hacking-amazon-echo-show-8-3rd-gen-via-uart-and-emmc/

Even with Amazon’s Echo Show devices running Linux in the form of the Android-derived FireOS, using them for non-Amazon approved purposes can be a chore at best. In the case …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/hacking-amazon-echo-show-8-3rd-gen-via-uart-and-emmc/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 874: Really, We Do PDFs
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/floss-weekly-episode-874-really-we-do-pdfs/

This week Jonathan chats with Andrea Gallo about RISC-V! What does it mean for RISC-V to be an Open ISA? Where is RISC-V popping up, and what’s the new frontier? …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/floss-weekly-episode-874-really-we-do-pdfs/)

Pi 5 Becomes ALSA-Compatible TOSLINK Sound Card
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/pi-5-becomes-alsa-compatible-sound-card-complete-with-toslink/

This is one of those hacks that makes you stop in your tracks and say, “wait, you can do that!?” — before realizing, oh, yes, of course you can do …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/pi-5-becomes-alsa-compatible-sound-card-complete-with-toslink/)

An Analog Synth For The Modern World
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/an-analog-synth-for-the-modern-world/

We cover so many projects here at Hackaday that lead the author down a rabbit hole of technological investigation that distracts us from the task of bringing them to you. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/an-analog-synth-for-the-modern-world/)

IBM Home Director: Home Automation in 1996
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/ibm-home-director-home-automation-in-1996/

Back in the 1990s IBM had a pretty sizeable presence in the PC market, including its rather spiffy Aptiva series of PCs. Naturally their PCs had to feature heavily in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/ibm-home-director-home-automation-in-1996/)

C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/c64-finally-gets-the-sram-corporate-wouldnt-pay-for/