{"slug": "ask-hn-burned-tokens-scented-candle-ideas", "title": "Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||||||\n2 points by |\nThe 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?)\n| |||||||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-burned-tokens-scented-candle-ideas", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859873", "published_at": "2026-07-10 13:47:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10 14:05:37.430204+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-burned-tokens-scented-candle-ideas", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-burned-tokens-scented-candle-ideas.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-burned-tokens-scented-candle-ideas.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-burned-tokens-scented-candle-ideas.jsonld"}}