Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (March 17, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for March 17, 2024 :</p>
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LLM4Decompile: Decompiling Binary Code with LLM
Summary: LLM4Decompile is an open-source project that uses large language models (LLMs) for decompiling binary code. The project aims to create a decompilation benchmark focused on re-compilability and re-executability. It finetunes the DeepSeek-Coder model using a dataset of assembly-source pairs and evaluates the decompiled code based on re-compilability and re-executability. The LLM4Decompile models are available on Hugging Face, with sizes ranging from 1.3 billion to 33 billion parameters.
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The return of the frame pointers
Summary: In a recent blog post, Brendan Gregg discusses the return of frame pointers in Fedora and Ubuntu, which will improve CPU flame graphs and enable off-CPU flame graphs for the first time. This change will also benefit continuous profilers, as they won't need to convince customers to make OS changes for profiles to fully work. Frame pointers were removed in 2004 for performance reasons, but their absence has caused issues with debuggers and profilers. The reintroduction of frame pointers in 2024 will enhance system performance analysis and observability.