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* Southern California Braces for Potential Mudslides Even as Rains Slow  The New York Times * Homes evacuated in Studio City due to damaging mud flow  NBC Southern California * These California mudslide victims found some hope after the storm  The Washington Post * Storm pummels L.A. hillsides and canyons: Mud, boulders and a baby grand piano  Los Angeles Times * Residents self-evacuate following powerful mudslide in Beverly Glen  KTLA Los Angeles http://dlvr.it/T2Nbf5

Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code Hey HN! We are the founders of atopile. We’re building a tool to describe electronics with code. Here is a quick demo: https://youtu.be/7-Q0XVpfW3Y Could you imagine the pain of building an entire software product using only assembly code? That’s about how we felt designing hardware. We don’t currently have good ways to describe what we need, reuse existing designs and compile that description down to a product. We started atopile to fix this. atopile is an open-source language and toolchain to describe circuits with code. The compiler is here: https://ift.tt/YTxrWMP Docs are here: https://ift.tt/Pg3Mna5 . For a detailed deep dive designing an ESP32 module, see this video: https://youtu.be/eMWRwZOajdQ We realized this was a problem in our previous jobs. Narayan and I (Tim) had to manually, draw and export all our electronic circuit boards. This lasted until our friend Matt, a software engineer, showed us his development workflow. All h...

* Supreme Court challenge to Trump was filed by 91-year-old Norma Anderson  The Washington Post * Supreme Court Shocker? Here's What Happens if Trump Gets Kicked Off the Ballot  POLITICO * The Supreme Court must throw Trump off the 2024 ballot  The Hill * Opinion | How a Civil War chief justice is influencing a 2024 Trump case  The Washington Post * Here's how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump  ABC News http://dlvr.it/T2L56M

* Iran-backed group claims strike on Syria base used by U.S. as Israel-Hamas war fuels risky tit-for-tat  CBS News * Attack on U.S. Base Kills at Least Six as Mideast Boils Over  The Daily Beast * Deadly drone attack hits training ground at Syrian base housing US troops  Fox News * Middle East crisis live: Drone strike in Syria reported to have killed six members of US-backed Kurdish-led group  The Guardian * Attack on Syrian US base kills Kurdish fighters as regional tension simmers  Al Jazeera English http://dlvr.it/T2L4g5

* Rishi Sunak and Leo Varadkar make flying visits to Northern Ireland  BBC.com * British and Irish governments play down Sinn Féin's calls for united Ireland  The Guardian * Deal which restored Stormont protects NI's place within the Union – Sunak  The Independent * Northern Ireland Names Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill First Minister  The New York Times * Northern Ireland has a Catholic prime minister for the first time in history  America: The Jesuit Review http://dlvr.it/T2L4Fp

* 'Wow!': NBC's Kristen Welker Shocked By New 'Truly Stunning' Biden-Trump Poll  Yahoo News * Poll: 20-point deficit on handling economy highlights Biden’s struggles against Trump  NBC News * Joe Biden Faring Worse Than All Recent Presidential Incumbents in New Poll  Newsweek * 'Bidenomics' falls flat with voters as Trump takes huge lead in new poll  Fox News * Trump jumps ahead of Biden in new NBC poll, reveals VP shortlist  Boston Herald http://dlvr.it/T2KgLq

* High winds cause 177k customers in Sacramento County to lose power. Here’s when gusts will peak  Sacramento Bee * Live Coverage: California Sunday winter storm updates for Feb. 4  KCRA Sacramento * Storm leaves over 800000 Californians without power.  The Verge * Power outages: Tracking blackouts in Sacramento County  ABC10.com KXTV * Severe wind warning in effect across Northern California  KTXL FOX 40 Sacramento http://dlvr.it/T2Kg6D