Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
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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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ThrowawayR2
17 minutes ago
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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.)
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NishanStepak
8 minutes ago
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Melted plastic
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thih9
1 hour ago
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Ask an LLM chat, of course.
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shinryuu
38 minutes ago
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This is the way. Though I would say what does burnt GPU smell like? That's the smell of burnt tokens.
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Tade0
22 minutes ago
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ChatGPT gave me an idea, but I was wondering what human minds can come up with.
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fullstick
48 minutes ago
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Ozone?
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Tade0
8 minutes ago
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ChatGPT indeed suggested a pinch of ozone, but I'm not sure how one puts that in a candle.
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shinryuu
36 minutes ago
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I think this is the answer.
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