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Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
5 points by Tade0 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 16 comments
The other day my relative, who is a data engineer, floated the idea of a scented candle that would smell like burned LLM tokens. His birthday is coming up, so I was thinking of turning this into reality.

Problem is, neither me nor my immediate social circle have a good idea which scents would best convey this, so I figured I would reach out here.

Some initial propositions include:

-Burned toast

-Diesel fuel

-Gold (no discernible scent though)

-Fresh water

-Rainforest (that's being destroyed?)



Saw something similar: https://driesdepoorter.be/product/burningmoney/


Hot printed circuit boards, of course. Probably a blow dryer on max temperature for 10 minutes against an old PCIe card would give you an idea of what that smells like. (Do this outside, obviously.)


Sandalwood - it's nice and luxurious, just like paying full freight on tokens


Burning capacitor electrolyte


Ask an LLM chat, of course.


This is the way. Though I would say what does burnt GPU smell like? That's the smell of burnt tokens.


ChatGPT gave me an idea, but I was wondering what human minds can come up with.


Then again, the answer obtained by burning the tokens seems true by definition.


The smell of the Magic Smoke from burning electronics.


Ozone?


ChatGPT indeed suggested a pinch of ozone, but I'm not sure how one puts that in a candle.


I think this is the answer.


I would go for that tarry smoky smell you get from a heap of bbq briquettes just as they are set on fire.


Melted plastic


Paper. They're just writers, after all.


Actual feces




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