DeepSearch
a high-performance SMB directory scanner in Rust
Details
- External ID
- 46354733
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- DeepSearch
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 22, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6183206106870229
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- fast smb directory scanner in rust
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a high-concurrency network scanner that natively implements or optimizes the SMB/CIFS protocol in Rust requires networking and systems programming skills.
What it would actually take: Built in Rust using Tokio for asynchronous I/O and custom or wrapped SMB2/SMB3 protocol handlers. Key technical challenges include implementing high-throughput multi-threaded directory enumeration, handling SMB dialect negotiation, managing network latency and timeout pools across thousands of shares, and bypassing authentication/permission edge cases without causing thread starvation.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Traditional directory scanning tools
Concerns raised: Rayon may not be optimal for IO-heavy tasks, Symlink infinite loops edge case, Windows 255 character path limits, WiFi packet loss with too many concurrent requests, Excessive SMB round-trips on network shares
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1267 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #484 of 1268 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 52 days after the earliest competitor.
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- MCP-stama · hn · 2026-08-13 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- FIPSPad · hn · 2026-02-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- OJ · hn · 2026-09-17 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- IndexFlow · hn · 2026-08-28 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- nix-compact · github · 2026-09-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Rusdantic · hn · 2026-03-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- NeuralScript · hn · 2026-05-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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