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Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
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?)
- thih9 3mo agoAsk an LLM chat, of course.
- shinryuu 3mo agoThis is the way. Though I would say what does burnt GPU smell like? That's the smell of burnt tokens.
- Tade0 3mo agoChatGPT gave me an idea, but I was wondering what human minds can come up with.
- thih9 3mo agoThen again, the answer obtained by burning the tokens seems true by definition.
- fullstick 3mo agoOzone?
- ThrowawayR2 3mo agoHot 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.)
- Tade0 3mo ago[dead]
- NishanStepak 3mo agoMelted plastic
- beAbU 3mo agoI would go for that tarry smoky smell you get from a heap of bbq briquettes just as they are set on fire.
- FlyingAvatar 3mo agoBurning capacitor electrolyte
- rishikeshs 3mo agoSaw something similar: https://driesdepoorter.be/product/burningmoney/ https://driesdepoorter.be/product/burningmoney/
- mikewarot 3mo agoSandalwood - it's nice and luxurious, just like paying full freight on tokens
- Dumblydorr 3mo agoActual feces
- andyjohnson0 3mo agoThe smell of the Magic Smoke from burning electronics.
- qup 3mo agoPaper. They're just writers, after all.
- deleted 3mo ago[deleted]