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Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas

2•Tade0•1h ago
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?)

Comments

thih9•1h ago
Ask an LLM chat, of course.
shinryuu•56m ago
This is the way. Though I would say what does burnt GPU smell like? That's the smell of burnt tokens.
Tade0•40m ago
ChatGPT gave me an idea, but I was wondering what human minds can come up with.
fullstick•1h ago
Ozone?
shinryuu•54m ago
I think this is the answer.
Tade0•26m ago
ChatGPT indeed suggested a pinch of ozone, but I'm not sure how one puts that in a candle.
ThrowawayR2•35m ago
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.)
NishanStepak•26m ago
Melted plastic
beAbU•5m ago
I would go for that tarry smoky smell you get from a heap of bbq briquettes just as they are set on fire.

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