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Palantir Blog is the company blog at blog.palantir.com, writing about ai, business and career. Since 2011, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Rethinking CRUD for REST API Designs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Palantir's corporate blog for company statements, replies to press reports, and technical posts on user-centered ML and interviews. Comments mostly cite it as the company's own position.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Rethinking CRUD for REST API Designs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-17
- Ontology-Oriented Software Development3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-22
- Optimizing Git’s Merge Machinery, #12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-18
- The Coding Interview2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-03
- How to Rock an Algorithms Interview2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-26
What Hacker News says?
(I work for Palantir but any opinions are my own) Palantir is not in the business of collecting data, and as such would have no use for this data. Here's an official blog post explaining this: https://blog.palantir.com/palantir-is-not-a-data-company-pal...
Comment linking /palantir-is-not-a-data-company-palantir-explained-1-a6fcf8b3e4cb
on “Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan”Submitted How to Rock an Algorithms Interview as a story · 435 points
HN discussionA big assumption with this change is that the "Modular Open Systems Approach" (MOSA) [0] [1] will be adequate for integrating new systems developed and acquired under this "fast track". MOSA appears to be about 6 years old as a mandate [2] and is something that big contractors - SAIC, BAI, Palantir [3] - talk about. But, 6 years seems brand new in this sector. I'd be curious to see if LLM's have leverage for MOSA so…
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on “The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed”Submitted Introducing Palantir's first open source releases as a story · 105 points
HN discussionOn the other hand, they openly and frequently share information about their work on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Palantir-Technologies . Here they sort of address the apparent secrecy: > This is a common misconception. We do have clients whose names we can't share, but we try to be as open as we can, both internally and externally. We put as much of our customer work as we can on our Analysis Blog ( http://www.palan…
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on “Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link”Submitted How to Rock a Systems Design Interview as a story · 75 points
HN discussionNo, it makes no difference. Git doesn't look at the full history when performing a merge, it just looks for similarity between the paths and files in the commits being merged, and the common base commit (which you can discover by running `git merge-base`). It doesn't keep any metadata about whether something was a move: as far as the actual data structures are concerned, you deleted file a/b/c and added file d/e/f,…
Comment linking /optimizing-gits-merge-machinery-1-127ceb0ef2a1
on “What comes after Git”Submitted The UI Design Interview: A Primer as a story · 25 points
HN discussion> It should be clear that working at a fundamentally harmful company, like Exxon, Marlboro, or Peabody is going to self-select for certain types of people and those people are simply not care about the wellbeing of others as much. I don't really buy this. Have you seen Palantir's commitment to DEI?[0] How about Lockheed-Martin's commitment to the LGBT community?[1] On the flip side, I've heard plenty of people say I…
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on “Exxon’s Exodus”Submitted The Coding Interview as a story · 16 points
HN discussionfuck palantir. evil company. and fuck this bullshit: https://blog.palantir.com/pcl/home
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on “ICE Is Paying Palantir $30M to Build 'ImmigrationOS' Surveillance Platform”Submitted Ontology-Oriented Software Development as a story · 5 points
HN discussionPalantir on User-Centered ML: https://blog.palantir.com/user-centered-machine-learning-051...
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on “Palantir Secures $99M Army Contract for User-Centered ML”Submitted Correcting the Record: Responses to the May 30 2025 NY Times Article on Palantir as a story · 4 points
HN discussionthis data sovereignty issue is almost certainly going to come up with the UK NHS / Palantir Federated Data Platform[0] which is going to be using Microsoft and AWS cloud services. [0] https://blog.palantir.com/palantir-and-the-nhs-dd1362982fa9
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on “Microsoft admits no guarantee of sovereignty for UK policing data”Submitted Palantir and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Partnership as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDisclaimer: I used to work at Palantir. However, I never used the Government product, and never as much as saw a demo of the Government product. I'll talk mostly about the Government product, but much of this goes for the Finance product too. Seems like there's a bit of a misunderstanding of what Palantir does. Palantir Government does not do data mining natively. The best explanation of this is from Palantir themse…
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on “Palantir: The War on Terror's Secret Weapon”Submitted Rethinking CRUD for REST API Designs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA good complement to our other post last week, How to Rock an Algorithms Interview - http://blog.palantir.com/2011/09/26/how-to-rock-an-algorithm...
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on “The Coding Interview”Submitted Optimizing Git’s Merge Machinery, #1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe markup in this case would be some type of semantic web format, like JSON-LD[0] or OWL[1], or some database that can process SPARQL[2] queries. Goal being the "inverse" of something like OWL2Vec[2]. EDIT1: A few weeks ago, a team of Brazilian researchers published a report about using ChatGPT to enhance agriculture-focused OWL dataset[4]. EDIT2: In addition to training LLMs on ontologies, it looks like Palantir i…
Comment linking /reducing-hallucinations-with-the-ontology-in-palantir-aip-288552477383
on “Ask HN: Has AI breathed new life into Semantic (web) Technologies?”Submitted Palantir Code Review Best Practices as a story · 3 points
HN discussionProbably worth also posting this for context: https://blog.palantir.com/korrektur-wie-das-online-magazin-d...
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on “Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court”Submitted Give interns real product work and you'll be delighted as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIndeed, assume this is the reply in question: https://blog.palantir.com/korrektur-wie-das-online-magazin-d...
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on “Mod sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security”Submitted Leading Federal IT Innovation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ontology-Oriented Software Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ontology-Oriented Software Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Benefits of Remote Ephemeral Workspaces as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding a Growth Path at Palantir as a story · 2 points
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