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New comment by robertkoss in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

robertkoss — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:20:51 +0000

Not sure if you have actually used Foundry, but I consider it insanely powerful and well built.

New comment by robertkoss in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

robertkoss — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:41:15 +0000

There is a fairly recent demo of Maven Smart System, which is the military product offering on top of Gotham (their government product)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrtDgoqWmgM

The commercial product, Foundry, is very well documented and an extensive Data Platform that allows to build data pipelines (similar to Databricks) and build low code / no code applications on top. If you master it, its incredibly powerful but complex

Michael Burry's Manifesto: Why I'm Short Palantir

robertkoss — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:25:12 +0000

Article URL: https://michaeljburry.substack.com/p/palantirs-new-clothes-foundry-aip

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991780

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by robertkoss in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

robertkoss — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:16:51 +0000

I will never understand how people honestly think that there is a such a thing as a central DB. Do you really think that Gov Agencies from all over the world deploy Gotham just connected to the internet without controlling inflow / outflow of data? I would bet money that 99% of critical systems are not even connected to the internet but air-gapped because, believe it or not, people at those agencies are not that stupid.

New comment by robertkoss in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

robertkoss — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:13:47 +0000

Yeah, but Foundry is so ahead, not seeing DataSphere competing there honestly. The only reason is, you already are on SAP and don't want a second system.

Also the engineering / product culture @Palantir is diametrically opposed to what exists at SAP, so I favour Palantir.

New comment by robertkoss in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

robertkoss — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:04:22 +0000

I think Foundry is insanely impressive tbh. If you set it up correctly, its insanely powerful

New comment by robertkoss in "API GitHub Meta"

robertkoss — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:23:17 +0000

Chat, what do I see here?

New comment by robertkoss in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

robertkoss — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:51:08 +0000

The problem that this article has is essentially this:

> Thiel by contrast is profiting from the use of AI weapons targeting systems used in the Ukraine war and the genocide in Gaza.

Thiel is IMO not doing this for profit. He is deeply ideological, which should be more worrisome.

New comment by robertkoss in "I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign"

robertkoss — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:37:51 +0000

That was a great read!

New comment by robertkoss in "Ask HN: Is GitHub down for you as well?"

robertkoss — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:01:09 +0000

Germany here. Seems to be global then.

Ask HN: Is GitHub down for you as well?

robertkoss — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:57:51 +0000

Can not push right now, internal server error.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915641

Points: 25

# Comments: 10

New comment by robertkoss in "Why is modern data architecture so confusing? And what made sense for me"

robertkoss — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:24:31 +0000

yup, it's an ad in disguise.

New comment by robertkoss in "Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available"

robertkoss — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:27:49 +0000

You were talking about data engineering. If you do not write tests as a data engineer what are you doing then? Just hoping that you don't fuck up editing a 1000 > line SQL script?

If you use Athena you still have to worry about shuffling and joining, it is just hidden.. It is Trino / Presto under the hood and if you click explain you can see the execution plan, which is essentially the same as looking into the SparkUI.

Who cares about JVM versions nowadays? No one is hosting Spark themselves.

Literally every tool now supports DataFrame AND SQL APIs and to me there is no reason to pick up SQL if you are familiar with a little bit of Python

New comment by robertkoss in "Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available"

robertkoss — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:01:53 +0000

That is a false dichotomy. You can use SQL tools but still have to choose the instance type.

Especially when considering testability and composability, using a DataFrame API inside regular languages like Python is far superior IMO.

New comment by robertkoss in "Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available"

robertkoss — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:57:53 +0000

OG polars announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768227

New comment by robertkoss in "Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available"

robertkoss — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:57:22 +0000

Love it!

Still don't get why one of the biggest player in the space, Databricks is overinvesting in Spark. For startups, Polars or DuckDB are completely sufficient. Other companies like Palantir already support bring your own compute.

New comment by robertkoss in "Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix"

robertkoss — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:57:02 +0000

great to hear, vite.

New comment by robertkoss in "Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix"

robertkoss — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:41:59 +0000

I would love to have a React Copilot that has access to the console, network logs, the actual html elements, computed styling etc. + my code.

This would be such a game-changer. I am also convinced that monorepos will become the de facto standard, since it is way easier for LLMs to navigate / implement features across the whole stack.

New comment by robertkoss in "Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature"

robertkoss — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:13:53 +0000

Its the same if you sell B2B software and have to offer SSO to your customers. Every auth provider like Auth0, Clerk, WorkOS etc. increases their prices tremendously if you require SSO...

New comment by robertkoss in "What does Palantir actually do?"

robertkoss — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:20:18 +0000

its pretty obvious you have neither used foundry nor gotham.