{"slug": "palantir", "name": "Palantir", "category": "observability", "category_name": "Monitoring and analytics", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 43, "warners": 28, "score": -19.184, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-04", "latest": "2026-10-02", "why": "you can import/export in pretty much any format you want and they've got a well documented sdk", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 10, "compare": 3, "warn": 32}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "you can import/export in pretty much any format you want and they've got a well documented sdk", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "palantir.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.palantir.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Palantir", "Palantir Foundry"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 760586304, "item_id": 47536644, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536644", "by": "crimsoneer", "date": "2026-03-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "you can import/export in pretty much any format you want and they've got a well documented sdk", "excerpt": "They very much do not, you can import/export in pretty much any format you want and they've got a well documented sdk. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/ontology-sdk/python-osdk", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"}, {"id": 758448193, "item_id": 47403012, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403012", "by": "basket_horse", "date": "2026-03-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Palantir builds its applications to fit your company.", "excerpt": "This is a somewhat misleading description. The first half is true. They bring in their FDEs to clean and organize your data. But the difference in what they leave behind is what separates them from classic consultancies and pure tech companies. They don't leave behind \"insights.\" They leave behind a suite of operational (ie have write capabilities not just dashboards) applications that are \"custom\" built to actually ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mod sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"}, {"id": 742525776, "item_id": 46407861, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407861", "by": "adolph", "date": "2025-12-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Foundry has a good toolset for the job", "excerpt": "Healthcare systems often use Foundry for organizing data. It's a complex problem and Foundry has a good toolset for the job. https://www.palantir.com/offerings/health/", "context": "", "use_case": "Healthcare data organization", "switched_from": "", "story": "Say No to Palantir in the NHS"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 786677536, "item_id": 49167346, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167346", "by": "clydethefrog", "date": "2026-08-04", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "they are your usual proprietary software with a shitty UI and expensive contract", "excerpt": "LRB had a great article about Palantir and the NHS in their latest issue. [1] What I mostly enjoyed reading is the insight that their actual software is quite \"rubbish\", something I have seen people mention in discussions here, especially in the early years of Palantir before it became more notorious and well-known. I do believe the \"evil company\" is part of their marketing to cover up that they are your usual propri", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data"}, {"id": 783253457, "item_id": 48953341, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953341", "by": "uxcolumbo", "date": "2026-07-17", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "more surveillance (i.e. Flock and Palantir)", "excerpt": "Some quick follow up thoughts: > But all the data I could find concludes that more people have moved up than down. I based my comment on research done by Pew, OECD, and economists like Saez/Zucman. The middle class is shrinking both upward and downward, but a significant share is moving down or stagnating, not up! Even billionaires themselves comment on this: https://fortune.com/2026/07/17/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-arti", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites \u2013 for 100x the bandwidth"}, {"id": 781381520, "item_id": 48836345, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836345", "by": "spwa4", "date": "2026-07-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "For example, Palantir gets access", "excerpt": "Not even that. The government outsources a lot of their functions, so a LOT of organizations have access to extremely private data, where necessary. For example, Palantir gets access to \"large and diverse (government) databases with Dutch citizens\u2019 data for analysis\" (including mental health treatment data) under the GPDR to help police in the Netherlands do terror investigations (from 2012 to 2019). I'm sure you can", "context": "", "use_case": "Police data analysis", "switched_from": "", "story": "EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules"}, {"id": 780932993, "item_id": 48808312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808312", "by": "brahmanithota", "date": "2026-07-06", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I led the migration of enterprise healthcare data off Palantir onto Snowflake", "excerpt": "Location: Columbia, Maryland Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: SQL, Python, PySpark, AWS, Palantir, Snowflake, dbt, Databricks R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://blue-cloud-565.linkyhost.com Email: thotasadhvika@gmail.com Data Engineer of 5 years of experience with hands-on ownership of financial data infrastructure in high-stakes, regulated environments. At Centene Corporation, I own end-to-end pipelines proc", "context": "Data engineer, 5 years, healthcare financial data", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["government data analytics", "operational ontology", "police data analysis", "nhs data analytics", "police intelligence analysis", "enterprise data platform"], "compared": [{"slug": "snowflake", "name": "Snowflake", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "postgresql", "name": "PostgreSQL", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251", "title": "'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563655", "title": "Say No to Palantir in Europe", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535371", "title": "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397797", "title": "Mod sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750852", "title": "Palantir has no place in UK public services", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405309", "title": "Say No to Palantir in the NHS", "mentions": 2}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"warn": 2, "neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"warn": 6, "neutral": 2}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 2, "warn": 3}, "2026-03": {"warn": 9, "recommend": 1, "compare": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"warn": 6}, "2026-06": {"warn": 1}, "2026-07": {"warn": 3}, "2026-08": {"warn": 1}, "2026-09": {"compare": 2}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "quotes": [{"id": 799035600, "item_id": 49939725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939725", "by": "hedora", "date": "2026-10-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Also public cloud:", "excerpt": "Also public cloud: https://www.palantir.com/partnerships/cloud/ I wonder if Palantir manages some deployments for customers. I\u2019d guess they do.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos into a Palantir Database"}, {"id": 797745169, "item_id": 49859073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859073", "by": "ademattos", "date": "2026-09-26", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Way more efficient than working inside something like Foundry.", "excerpt": "Hi HN. If you like the idea behind Palantir's ontology, I think you'll enjoy this. It's an open source (MIT) TypeScript framework for building software around a typed ontology. You model your domain, then put it to work. Since it's just code, it's coding agent friendly. Way more efficient than working inside something like Foundry. It's for businesses that want a live operational model of how they run, but are out of", "context": "", "use_case": "operational ontology", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sixb, a TypeScript ontology framework for modeling your domain"}, {"id": 794076768, "item_id": 49629798, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629798", "by": "laimewhisps", "date": "2026-09-09", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "They are literally a Palantir competitor", "excerpt": "They are literally a Palantir competitor: https://www.samdesk.io/about-us", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists"}, {"id": 786677536, "item_id": 49167346, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167346", "by": "clydethefrog", "date": "2026-08-04", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "they are your usual proprietary software with a shitty UI and expensive contract", "excerpt": "LRB had a great article about Palantir and the NHS in their latest issue. [1] What I mostly enjoyed reading is the insight that their actual software is quite \"rubbish\", something I have seen people mention in discussions here, especially in the early years of Palantir before it became more notorious and well-known. I do believe the \"evil company\" is part of their marketing to cover up that they are your usual propri", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data"}, {"id": 783253457, "item_id": 48953341, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953341", "by": "uxcolumbo", "date": "2026-07-17", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "more surveillance (i.e. Flock and Palantir)", "excerpt": "Some quick follow up thoughts: > But all the data I could find concludes that more people have moved up than down. I based my comment on research done by Pew, OECD, and economists like Saez/Zucman. The middle class is shrinking both upward and downward, but a significant share is moving down or stagnating, not up! Even billionaires themselves comment on this: https://fortune.com/2026/07/17/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-arti", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites \u2013 for 100x the bandwidth"}, {"id": 781381520, "item_id": 48836345, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836345", "by": "spwa4", "date": "2026-07-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "For example, Palantir gets access", "excerpt": "Not even that. The government outsources a lot of their functions, so a LOT of organizations have access to extremely private data, where necessary. For example, Palantir gets access to \"large and diverse (government) databases with Dutch citizens\u2019 data for analysis\" (including mental health treatment data) under the GPDR to help police in the Netherlands do terror investigations (from 2012 to 2019). I'm sure you can", "context": "", "use_case": "Police data analysis", "switched_from": "", "story": "EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules"}, {"id": 780932993, "item_id": 48808312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808312", "by": "brahmanithota", "date": "2026-07-06", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I led the migration of enterprise healthcare data off Palantir onto Snowflake", "excerpt": "Location: Columbia, Maryland Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: SQL, Python, PySpark, AWS, Palantir, Snowflake, dbt, Databricks R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://blue-cloud-565.linkyhost.com Email: thotasadhvika@gmail.com Data Engineer of 5 years of experience with hands-on ownership of financial data infrastructure in high-stakes, regulated environments. At Centene Corporation, I own end-to-end pipelines proc", "context": "Data engineer, 5 years, healthcare financial data", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"}, {"id": 776229649, "item_id": 48514353, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514353", "by": "coffinbirth", "date": "2026-06-13", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Anthropic is heavily embedded within Palantir, the foundational data platform of the Military-Industrial Complex", "excerpt": "But in the end it's all just a deceptive theater. While Anthropic publicly claims to refuse to help the MIC with warfare and surveillance, behind closed doors, Anthropic actively deploys its engineers and models to assist the NSA with espionage and offensive cyber warfare. Just look at the many contradictions: * Anthropic secretly sent its own engineers directly to the NSA to deploy its (at that time unreleased) mode", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"}, {"id": 772008080, "item_id": 48250505, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250505", "by": "m3047", "date": "2026-05-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's like a million dollar a day marine crane which comes with a crew", "excerpt": "Bert Hubert makes an argument based on Palantir: it's not simply the software. It's like a million dollar a day marine crane which comes with a crew. To put it another way, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce licenses are a tax compared to what is spent on consultants and integrators. That army knows a particular tech stack and also the relevant players. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/some-notes-on-palantir/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate"}, {"id": 770406752, "item_id": 48150422, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150422", "by": "jshier", "date": "2026-05-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "That happens at literally every company I contract with (that requires I use their equipment). At my current gig I couldn't start until they had a laptop for me, and then it took another month to access to the code. Every year they auto delete contractor credentials, unless the director in charge of your contract says no. One year he missed the email and I found myself without access to the code for days while I was ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system"}, {"id": 770398848, "item_id": 48149928, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149928", "by": "spwa4", "date": "2026-05-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the data Palantir produces is bullshit", "excerpt": "Yeah, I bet this is involved in the problem. This is describing the NHS as essentially nonfunctional, hospitals have their own IT and attempts to migrate to NHS infrastructure have largely failed. No doubt that makes sure people having long-term illnesses will spend most of the time being long-term ill waiting in NHS lines. Of course, the complaint from economists is long-term sick people being occupied 12+ months ge", "context": "", "use_case": "NHS data analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system"}, {"id": 770384352, "item_id": 48149022, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149022", "by": "aleksandrm", "date": "2026-05-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Didn't they just give Palantir their NHS patient data?", "excerpt": "Didn't they just give Palantir their NHS patient data? https://cybernews.com/tech/palantir-nhs-patient-data/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system"}, {"id": 770353104, "item_id": 48147069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147069", "by": "throw14082020", "date": "2026-05-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Free software from Palantir is not free.", "excerpt": "I was at an event in London that involved a lot of government people. It came up that Palantir was not a very good company, Someone felt compelled to shout out, oh don't talk about that here, \"we like Palantir here\". It is certainly the elephant in the room (elephant in cost, and a very difficult situation). Free software from Palantir is not free. Peter Thiel's co is all about monopolies. Oh, and don't forget to opt", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system"}, {"id": 770349728, "item_id": 48146858, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146858", "by": "RealCodingOtaku", "date": "2026-05-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I would rather not hand mine or my neighbours' health data to a spy-tech firm", "excerpt": "I would rather not hand mine or my neighbours' health data to a spy-tech firm, who will have unlimited access to their data[0]. Not having the system (it's not like it's already in use anyway) is always a good step in the right direction. And a replacement built-in UK will provide more jobs, more tax money, and digital sovereignty for UK. https://www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/palantir-to-be-granted-unlimited-access-t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system"}, {"id": 766124880, "item_id": 47882805, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882805", "by": "jjtheblunt", "date": "2026-04-23", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "looks to be a computing tool used for purposes currently popular and not warcraft", "excerpt": "https://www.palantir.com/interoperability/ looks to be a computing tool used for purposes currently popular and not warcraft", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder If They're the Bad Guys"}, {"id": 762013025, "item_id": 47625814, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625814", "by": "DaedalusII", "date": "2026-04-03", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/apparently-the-nhs-is-the-worlds-largest-buyer-of-fax-machines https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/removing-faxes-practice-guide-v1.3.pdf nhs is famous dumb and has spent years trying to stop using fax machine. \u00a3330 million is nothing over a few years.. NHS budget for 2024/25 is circa \u00a3242 billion. the entire annual intake from capital gains tax is \u00a320 million or so", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"}, {"id": 761057824, "item_id": 47566114, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566114", "by": "niekiepriekie", "date": "2026-03-29", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Well, i don\u2019t have a source. Its very hush hush, as even the part that the police is using it has been leaked by a redacted document. It\u2019s crazy. https://www.privacynieuws.nl/binnenlands-nieuws/politie-en-justitie/nederlandse-politie-gebruikt-omstreden-software-van-palantir.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Say No to Palantir in Europe"}, {"id": 761041312, "item_id": 47565082, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565082", "by": "inaros", "date": "2026-03-29", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "controversial AI intelligence software by American Palantir", "excerpt": "\"Dutch police also use controversial AI intelligence software by American Palantir\" - https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/22/dutch-police-also-use-controversial-ai-intelligence-software-american-palantir \"Palantir is well on its way to conquering Europe\" - https://www.euractiv.com/news/palantir-is-well-on-its-way-to-conquering-europe/", "context": "", "use_case": "police intelligence analysis", "switched_from": "", "story": "Say No to Palantir in Europe"}, {"id": 761034272, "item_id": 47564642, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564642", "by": "rvz", "date": "2026-03-29", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> If you're going to single out one US tech company as \"we need to stop cooperating with them\", I don't see how it can be any other than Meta. Meta's products also profited off of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. [0] The lawsuit won't do anything, the employees at Meta are happy with all of that and Meta does not care. Anyone would have to be morally bankrupt to work at any of those companies and then knowingly put ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Say No to Palantir in Europe"}, {"id": 761030768, "item_id": 47564423, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564423", "by": "inaros", "date": "2026-03-29", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data", "excerpt": "\"Palantir\u2019s Architecture: Analyzing the Ethics of Surveillance AI\" - https://erikabarker.ai/data-analysis/the-palantir-paradox-democracys-most-dangerous-servant/ \"All the Ways Palantir is Assisting Trump\u2019s Abusive Removal Campaign\" - https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/palantir-deportation-roundup \"\u2018ELITE\u2019: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid\" - https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Say No to Palantir in Europe"}, {"id": 760629584, "item_id": 47539349, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539349", "by": "text0404", "date": "2026-03-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Palantir's founders and executives are well aware of what their tools are designed for and what they enable", "excerpt": "Palantir's products are not Excel. Palantir's founders and executives are well aware of what their tools are designed for and what they enable, and they're proud of their role. As far as I know, Microsoft executives don't brag about Excel being used to create a unified \"kill chain\" [1], nor do they market software intended for targeting for weapons of mass destruction [2], nor do they claim that their products are de", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"}, {"id": 760600912, "item_id": 47537557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537557", "by": "themafia", "date": "2026-03-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It seems pretty clear what is happening to your data", "excerpt": "> Custody of the data remains with the customer. Yea.. like.. how, though? Here are their setup instructions. It seems pretty clear what is happening to your data, and an unqualified statement that you maintain some nebulous idea of \"custody\" seems oblivious to even simple risk. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/data-connection/initial-setup-overview This isn't even getting into their \"forward deployed software e", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"}, {"id": 760586304, "item_id": 47536644, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536644", "by": "crimsoneer", "date": "2026-03-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "you can import/export in pretty much any format you want and they've got a well documented sdk", "excerpt": "They very much do not, you can import/export in pretty much any format you want and they've got a well documented sdk. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/ontology-sdk/python-osdk", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"}, {"id": 760495328, "item_id": 47530958, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530958", "by": "DoingIsLearning", "date": "2026-03-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "they are behind this in every way except for 'officially'", "excerpt": "We need to add Palantir in bold letters to that list, they are behind this in every way except for 'officially'. > The Commission\u2019s failure to identify the list of experts as falling within the scope of the complainant\u2019s public access request constitutes maladministration. [0] > The Commission presented a proposal on preventing and combating child sexual abuse, looking in particular at detecting child pornography. In", "context": "", "use_case": "government data analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop"}, {"id": 760320352, "item_id": 47520022, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520022", "by": "crimsoneer", "date": "2026-03-25", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "You can go spin up a free Foundry instance", "excerpt": "At the risk of stating the obvious, Black Cube is an actual private intelligence firm that sells spy services [1], while Palantir is a software firm that sells software (even if that software is used by intelligence, gov, etc). You can go spin up a free Foundry instance [2] and test it, and it doesn't have secret buttons to imprison people. [1] https://www.blackcube.com/ [2] https://www.palantir.com/developers/", "context": "", "use_case": "enterprise data platform", "switched_from": "", "story": "Slovenian officials catch Israeli firm Black Cube trying to manipulate vote"}, {"id": 759867392, "item_id": 47491712, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491712", "by": "AndrewKemendo", "date": "2026-03-23", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Palantir is a great lesson in how a commodified, boring technology is totally dominating", "excerpt": "Palantir is a great lesson in how a commodified, boring technology is totally dominating by effectively making the decades of raw data collection sortable and their controversies (and notoriety) are nearly exclusively because of political behaviors. I recall using Palantir back in 2010 and thinking \u201cI thought this was supposed to do more actual stuff, it\u2019s a really advanced search and discovery tool for combing throu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Palantir trial plugs into UK financial watchdog's data trove"}, {"id": 758502896, "item_id": 47406431, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406431", "by": "hedgedoops2", "date": "2026-03-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Basically, the fear would be that palantir makes mass surveillance data actionable", "excerpt": "My reading of [1] is that Palantir does data fusion. Their software, when installed on an organization's peripheral systems by their FDEs, centralizes all the org's data (within the org - not at palantir), and allows the org's management to do analyses on the pool. I'm guessing that people are scared that the state will install one big palantir instance on all its systems. So that anything any part of the state learn", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mod sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"}, {"id": 758448193, "item_id": 47403012, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403012", "by": "basket_horse", "date": "2026-03-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Palantir builds its applications to fit your company.", "excerpt": "This is a somewhat misleading description. The first half is true. They bring in their FDEs to clean and organize your data. But the difference in what they leave behind is what separates them from classic consultancies and pure tech companies. They don't leave behind \"insights.\" They leave behind a suite of operational (ie have write capabilities not just dashboards) applications that are \"custom\" built to actually ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mod sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"}, {"id": 758442928, "item_id": 47402683, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402683", "by": "stefan_", "date": "2026-03-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "So frankly I oppose it on that ground alone.", "excerpt": "For a company that tries exclusively to sell to people that are very far removed from the use (government), yet have onerous reporting standards for all spending (government), there sure is very little independent reporting on the efficacy of whatever it is they are even selling. Even the contract with NHS was heavily censored. So frankly I oppose it on that ground alone.", "context": "", "use_case": "government data analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mod sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"}, {"id": 758420816, "item_id": 47401301, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401301", "by": "avidiax", "date": "2026-03-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Palantir is mass surveillance as a product, including \"predictive policing\".", "excerpt": "Peter Thiel is at least cosplaying a super-villain. Palantir is mass surveillance as a product, including \"predictive policing\". He's been grooming JD Vance as the next president. He has given lectures about the anti-Christ, and seems overly interested in armageddon. And life extension, like getting blood transfusions from the young and joking that he's a \"vampire\". \"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are", "context": "", "use_case": "Mass surveillance, predictive policing", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 754380272, "item_id": 47148767, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148767", "by": "birdsongs", "date": "2026-02-25", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "What broken system does Palantir fix?", "excerpt": "> That mission carries across everything we do, from our work with the US government Can you expand on this? Because currently, the US government is not someone I want the companies I use to work with. > The only thing we took from Palantir was the desire to fix a broken system. What broken system does Palantir fix?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid"}, {"id": 752666288, "item_id": 47041643, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041643", "by": "themafia", "date": "2026-02-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "You're telling me the NHS had to make this highly questionable decision", "excerpt": "> \"what if we had a consistently available tech stack and data model\" And Palantir is the only company that provides this? They didn't have this before? After they bought it what changed? Again, what new capabilities do they have now that they lacked before? What required them to make a deal with a defense contractor for a \"consistent data model?\" Did other ERP vendors not exist? It's 2026. Make this make sense. Just", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment"}, {"id": 752421680, "item_id": 47026355, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026355", "by": "crimsoneer", "date": "2026-02-15", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It's a software company, it sells software.", "excerpt": "It's a software company, it sells software. You can literally go read the docs. It doesn't magically bypass the law anymore than Microsoft Sharepoint does. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals"}, {"id": 751966000, "item_id": 46997875, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997875", "by": "int_19h", "date": "2026-02-12", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Palantir, whose software is underpinning ICE activities right now.", "excerpt": "Google literally has a partnership with Palantir, whose software is underpinning ICE activities right now. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-palantir-team-supercharge-ai-143254430.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"}, {"id": 750306785, "item_id": 46894174, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46894174", "by": "keeda", "date": "2026-02-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Palantir's secret sauce may not be their tech", "excerpt": "Important snippet that has bearing on the adoption of AI as a whole: > \u201cDisorganized data silos\u201d have been an issue for Copilot, analysts wrote. This is true in almost every large organization, and will affect every enterprise AI product out there. There was a relevant subthread just a couple of days ago recounting this exact, same dynamic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861209 In fact, Palantir's secret sauc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems"}, {"id": 749825712, "item_id": 46864107, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864107", "by": "keeda", "date": "2026-02-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Palantir's real secret sauce, rather than the tech itself", "excerpt": "Totally makes sense. Turns out that a lot of what Palantir's \"Forward Deployed Engineers\" do is navigating these bureaucratic and political obstacles to get access to the data: https://nabeelqu.co/reflections-on-palantir -- which may be Palantir's real secret sauce, rather than the tech itself.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"}, {"id": 748717568, "item_id": 46794848, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794848", "by": "JumpCrisscross", "date": "2026-01-28", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> How are Palantir so effective? What are you using to conclude their effectiveness? It appears Palantir \u201cbrings up a dossier on each person, and provides a \u2018confidence score\u2019 on the person\u2019s current address\u201d [1]. That\u2019s like VLOOKUP. On effectiveness, Trump is deporting fewer people than Obama did with a tenth of the budget. [1] https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants"}, {"id": 748588928, "item_id": 46786808, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786808", "by": "subscribed", "date": "2026-01-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Oh, you don't need to have Facebook account to have a very comprehensive and accurate profile: https://www.howtogeek.com/768652/what-are-facebook-shadow-profiles-and-should-you-be-worried/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kash Patel says FBI is investigating Signal chats of Minnesotans tracking ICE"}, {"id": 748113088, "item_id": 46757068, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757068", "by": "JumpCrisscross", "date": "2026-01-25", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> shows how many people care more about party than principle \"Trump\u2019s net approval rating on immigration has declined by about 4 points since the day before Good\u2019s death until today. Meanwhile, his overall approval rating has declined by 2 points and is near its second-term lows\" [1]. I'd encourage anyone watching to actually pay attention to \"how many people care more about party than principle.\" I suspect it's fewe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds on Medicaid Data"}, {"id": 748026368, "item_id": 46751648, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751648", "by": "sscarduzio", "date": "2026-01-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "We\u2019re at good point with European alternatives https://www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russia/2025/12/02/palantir-chapsvision-octostar-the-battle-for-european-intelligence-platforms-is-go,110568466-art", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Palantir has no place in UK public services"}]}