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
https://blog.comma.ai/datacenter/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896146
2. When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/02/03/badnas/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895972
3. Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897737
4. The Missing Layer
https://yagmin.com/blog/the-missing-layer/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898223
5. Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp
https://github.com/vkazanov/elcity
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897332
6. Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home
https://danielmangum.com/posts/making-ferrite-core-inductors-home/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855057
7. Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science (1999)
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845790
8. A Broken Heart
https://allenpike.com/2026/a-broken-heart/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844393
9. Wirth's Revenge
https://jmoiron.net/blog/wirths-revenge/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895381
10. Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
https://sqldef.github.io/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845239
