May 1, 2026
Your code knows your fate now
Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill
A coding fortune teller drops, and the comments instantly go full skeptic mode
TLDR: A developer built a Claude Code add-on that turns your birth details into daily fortunes using traditional fortune-telling formulas plus AI-written interpretation. Commenters were split between amused skepticism, safety worries, and jokes about whether fake astrology is any less accurate than the real thing.
A new Show HN project called Destiny promises to turn Claude Code into your personal fortune teller, serving up a daily reading based on your birth date, time, city, and gender. The creator insists this is not just a random horoscope machine: the chart math is fixed, the old-school divination system is calculated locally, and only the final write-up is generated by the AI. In plain English, the numbers are serious business — the mystical storytelling is the part with sparkle. Naturally, the community saw that and said: oh, we are absolutely fighting about this.
The biggest reaction was a split between “fun toy” and “please do not let a chatbot become someone’s life coach.” One commenter immediately raised the darkest concern: if this thing talks about life paths and advice, where’s the disclaimer? Another went straight for the comedy kill shot, joking about whether the AI’s “hallucinated horoscopes” are really any worse than the traditional version — and asking, with impeccable internet menace, whether anyone had A/B tested astrology. That line alone feels destined for the hall of fame.
Others got more philosophical, pointing out that the chart is deterministic but the interpretation is probabilistic — basically, the magic may be in the wording, not the stars. And in classic launch-day fashion, one user cut through all the mysticism with the most grounded complaint of all: how do I even install this thing? So yes, the fortunes may be cosmic, but the comments were gloriously earthly: skeptical, funny, slightly alarmed, and very, very online.
Key Points
- •Destiny is a Claude Code plugin skill that generates personalized fortune and life readings using deterministic calculations from birth data and current date/time.
- •The plugin stores user birth profile data locally after the first run and can then be invoked repeatedly with `/destiny`.
- •Its outputs combine Two sections: Today's Fortune with ratings and lucky attributes, and Life Reading covering character, life arc, and current 10-year period.
- •The system uses Four Pillars, a perpetual lunar calendar, and the I-Ching, with calculations performed via `lunar-python`, lookup tables, and plum-blossom time divination.
- •The article states that all processing runs locally with no external APIs or scraped sites, and that repeated runs for the same person on the same day produce identical script output apart from prose phrasing.