36: DTF:HN for February 5, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 5, 2026. Featuring: Don't rent the cloud, own instead, When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown, Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw, The Missing Layer, Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp, and more.

Stories covered:

1. Don't rent the cloud, own instead
   (Article | HN Discussion)
2. When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
   (Article | HN Discussion)
3. Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
   (Article | HN Discussion)
4. The Missing Layer
   (Article | HN Discussion)
5. Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp
   (Article | HN Discussion)
6. Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home
   (Article | HN Discussion)
7. Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science (1999)
   (Article | HN Discussion)
8. A Broken Heart
   (Article | HN Discussion)
9. Wirth's Revenge
   (Article | HN Discussion)
10. Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
    (Article | HN Discussion)