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
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Launched 54 days after the earliest competitor.
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