Palantir
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
28warn against
Nov 4, 2025first mention
Oct 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“you can import/export in pretty much any format you want and they've got a well documented sdk”
“Palantir builds its applications to fit your company.”
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“Foundry has a good toolset for the job”
Caveats and dissent
“they are your usual proprietary software with a shitty UI and expensive contract”
“more surveillance (i.e. Flock and Palantir)”
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“For example, Palantir gets access”
“I led the migration of enterprise healthcare data off Palantir onto Snowflake”
Data engineer, 5 years, healthcare financial dataon “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)”
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Threads where it came up
- 'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system 5 mentions
- Say No to Palantir in Europe 4 mentions
- New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK 3 mentions
- Mod sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security 3 mentions
- Palantir has no place in UK public services 2 mentions
- Say No to Palantir in the NHS 2 mentions
Also written as Palantir Foundry. Data: palantir.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“Also public cloud:”
“Way more efficient than working inside something like Foundry.”
“They are literally a Palantir competitor”
“they are your usual proprietary software with a shitty UI and expensive contract”
“more surveillance (i.e. Flock and Palantir)”
“For example, Palantir gets access”
“I led the migration of enterprise healthcare data off Palantir onto Snowflake”
“Anthropic is heavily embedded within Palantir, the foundational data platform of the Military-Industrial Complex”
“It's like a million dollar a day marine crane which comes with a crew”
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
“the data Palantir produces is bullshit”
“Didn't they just give Palantir their NHS patient data?”
“Free software from Palantir is not free.”
“I would rather not hand mine or my neighbours' health data to a spy-tech firm”
“looks to be a computing tool used for purposes currently popular and not warcraft”
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. £330 million is nothing over a few years.. NHS budget for 2024/25 is circa £242 billion. the entire annual intake from capital gains tax is £20 million or so
Well, i don’t 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’s crazy. https://www.privacynieuws.nl/binnenlands-nieuws/politie-en-justitie/nederlandse-politie-gebruikt-omstreden-software-van-palantir.html
“controversial AI intelligence software by American Palantir”
> 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
“ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data”
“Palantir's founders and executives are well aware of what their tools are designed for and what they enable”
“It seems pretty clear what is happening to your data”
“you can import/export in pretty much any format you want and they've got a well documented sdk”
“they are behind this in every way except for 'officially'”
“You can go spin up a free Foundry instance”
“Palantir is a great lesson in how a commodified, boring technology is totally dominating”
“Basically, the fear would be that palantir makes mass surveillance data actionable”
“Palantir builds its applications to fit your company.”
“So frankly I oppose it on that ground alone.”
“Palantir is mass surveillance as a product, including "predictive policing".”
“What broken system does Palantir fix?”
“You're telling me the NHS had to make this highly questionable decision”
“It's a software company, it sells software.”
“Palantir, whose software is underpinning ICE activities right now.”
“Palantir's secret sauce may not be their tech”
“Palantir's real secret sauce, rather than the tech itself”
> How are Palantir so effective? What are you using to conclude their effectiveness? It appears Palantir “brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a ‘confidence score’ on the person’s current address” [1]. That’s 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/
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/
> shows how many people care more about party than principle "Trump’s net approval rating on immigration has declined by about 4 points since the day before Good’s 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
We’re 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