Nicheloom

Market intelligence for builders — see what's gaining traction before it's crowded.

Hurry

Fast Rust build caching

Details

External ID
46357294
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Hurry
Website domain
hurry.build
Launched
Dec. 22, 2025
Cohort
—
Upvotes
11
Upvotes percentile
0.5286259541984732
Tags
—
Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Hey HN, we’re Eliza and Xin. We’re working on Hurry, an open source drop-in tool that adds distributed build caching to Cargo with (almost) zero configuration. Wherever you run cargo build, you can run hurry cargo build instead, and expect around 2-5x (our best benchmark is 22x) faster builds.We built this because we were dissatisfied with the current build caching options available for Rust. Buck and Bazel require learning a new tool. GitHub Actions and swatinem are too coarse-grained (either the whole cache hits, or none of it does) and finicky to debug, and cargo-chef and Docker layer caching have the same problems.We wanted something that could restore cache at the package level, did not require integration-specific setup, and worked everywhere.Hurry is fully open source under Apache 2. You can try it out now with our cloud hosted caching service at https://hurry.build or self-host your own build cache service from https://github.com/attunehq/hurry. Sorry in advance for the rough edges - we have some customers already exercising the hot paths, but build tools are pretty large surfaces. We’ve got a list of known limitations at https://github.com/attunehq/hurry?tab=readme-ov-file#known-l....We’d love for folks here to try it out (maybe on your next Rust winter side project?) and let us know what you think. We’ll be in the comments here, or you can email us at [email protected] goal is to make all parts of software engineering faster. If you have some part of your coding workflow that you want faster, please feel free to reach out. We’d love to chat.

Enrichment

Theme
macOS utilities and system tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
fast rust build caching
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Distributed build caching for Cargo requires low-level integration with the Rust compiler (rustc/cargo), deep understanding of artifact hashing, deterministic builds, and distributed storage protocols.

What it would actually take: The architecture typically wraps `cargo` and intercepts `rustc` invocations via compiler wrapper environment variables (similar to `sccache`). The hard parts involve computing deterministic input hash trees (capturing compiler flags, AST/source files, macro expansions, system libraries, and toolchain versions), safely caching intermediate compilation units (`.rlib`, `.rmeta`, `.o`), and managing high-throughput distributed CAS (content-addressable storage) across network nodes.

Discussion

4 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: sccache, Dioxus CLI

Concerns raised: How does this differ from existing distributed caching solutions

Feature requests: Compatibility with dx dioxus cli

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #111 of 234 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 54 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a dev tools tool for Sales yet.