Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas

TTade0 about 7 hours ago 11 comments

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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?)

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rishikeshs•about 2 hours ago

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

ThrowawayR2•about 6 hours 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.)

thih9•about 7 hours ago

Ask an LLM chat, of course.

shinryuu•about 6 hours ago

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

Tade0•about 6 hours ago

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

FlyingAvatar•about 4 hours ago

Burning capacitor electrolyte

fullstick•about 6 hours ago

Ozone?

Tade0•about 6 hours ago

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

shinryuu•about 6 hours ago

I think this is the answer.

NishanStepak•about 6 hours ago

Melted plastic

beAbU•about 5 hours ago

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