I built a tool that turns cryptography papers into working Python code
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Hey HN! I'm a cryptographer who's implemented dozens of papers over the years. Even with my background, turning a paper into code takes me days or weeks. Not just because the math is hard but because translating from academic notation to working code is tedious and error-prone.Last month I was implementing a new commitment scheme and thought: why am I doing this manually for the 50th time?So I built PapersToApp. Upload a cryptography paper PDF, select the algorithm page, get Python code in seconds. (Not production ready of course)How it works technically: two passes: select the PDF page and send it to Claude API. The next stage is having multiple passes through the Claude API to get all depe
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