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Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas

A user on Hacker News is seeking scent ideas for a candle that would smell like burned LLM tokens, as a birthday gift for a data engineer relative. Suggestions from the community include burned toast, diesel fuel, and rainforest.

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| |||||||||||||||| 2 points by | 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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