Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas

4 pointsby Tade0قبل 14 ساعة13 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?)

14 comments

rishikeshsقبل 9 ساعات

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

mikewarotقبل 4 ساعات

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

ThrowawayR2قبل 13 ساعة

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.)

Tade0قبل 11 ساعة

thih9قبل 14 ساعة

Ask an LLM chat, of course.

shinryuuقبل 13 ساعة

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

Tade0قبل 13 ساعة

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

thih9قبل 6 ساعات

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

FlyingAvatarقبل 11 ساعة

Burning capacitor electrolyte

fullstickقبل 13 ساعة

Ozone?

Tade0قبل 13 ساعة

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

shinryuuقبل 13 ساعة

I think this is the answer.

NishanStepakقبل 13 ساعة

Melted plastic

beAbUقبل 12 ساعة

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