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Nabeel S. Qureshi
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Nabeel S. Qureshi's personal blog at nabeelqu.substack.com covers philosophy and writing. Since 2023, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Reflections on Palantir”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-03, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Nabeel Qureshi's Substack, mainly 'Reflections on Palantir', an account of working at Palantir and its forward-deployed engineer role. Also cited: 'Advice That Actually Worked For Me'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Reflections on Palantir6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-10-16
- What Makes Art Great?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-03
- The Serendipity Machine: Notes on Using Twitter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-20
- Notes on Problem-Solving2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-11
- Advice That Worked for Me2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-06
- How to Understand Things2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-27
What Hacker News says?
> The article reveals depressing reasons why someone might choose to work for the lines of Palantir: lots of talented people working on hard problems. That's pretty much it. No problem with the business model, just intellectual hunger. That seems like a very uncharitable take. For instance, don't you think the section on morality[1] addresses this head on? [1] https://nabeelqu.substack.com/i/150188028/morality
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on “Reflections on Palantir”Submitted Reflections on Palantir as a story · 482 points
HN discussionThis is annoying because Ars is one of the better tech blogs out there, but it still has instances of biased reporting like this one. It's interesting to decipher this article with an eye on what they said, what they implied, and what they didn't say . Would be good if a sales person chime could in to keep me honest, but: 1. There is a difference between sales quotas and sales growth targets . The former is a goal,…
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on “Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas”Submitted Notes on Problem-Solving as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI think you're looking for this: https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir I worked there for 7y, and can confirm Nabeel's post is very accurate. The general public thinks Palantir's a bunch of moral-less folks grinning over godlike power & privacy violations but in actuality it's a mashup of smart Silicon Valley + military folks trying to make data pipelines & analysis work around the globe, often in…
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on “What does Palantir actually do?”Submitted What Makes Art Great? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere are some in-depth blog posts from ex-employees: https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/the-great-data-integr... https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir
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on “Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal”Submitted How to Understand Things as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere was a great blog post by an early employee on here a while back that did a deep dive. It's a good read: https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir
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on “Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed”Submitted The Serendipity Machine: Notes on Using Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is really awesome - and it's so amazing that you've build this as a standalone tool! I can absolutely speak to the pain of having a dozen pg_dump --exclude-table-data arguments and having a developer experience that makes it difficult to reproduce bugs due to drift between production data and test fixtures (even if they share the same schema, assumptions can change massively!). Secure and robust database clonin…
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on “Show HN: Greenmask 0.2 – Database anonymization tool”Submitted What Makes Art Great? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI really enjoyed this article. I would recommend others check out "Advice That Actually Worked For Me" by the same author. This same topic is mentioned in #6. https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/advice
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on “Notes on Problem-Solving”Submitted What Makes Art Great as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor those who have not read it this is a terrific overview on the value of the FDE trend https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir
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on “The OpenAI Deployment Company”Submitted On Reading Proust's in Search of Lost Time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Forward Deployed Engineer role, as envisioned by Palantir, is qualitatively different from the other roles like partner engineers or solution architects, and I think it will be critical for enterprise AI adoption. I found this blog from an ex-Palantir FDE eye-opening on the sort of work they do: https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir Note that many of the hurdles they overcome are not technical,…
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on “Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer”Submitted Principles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Use Twitter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Understand Things as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Puzzles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advice That Worked for Me as a story · 1 points
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