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Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
Brad Fitzpatrick
Brad Fitzpatrick records himself struggling to silence a set of first-generation Nest Protect smoke alarms that keep beeping and triggering one another.
HN cites it as the famous example of how over-clever smart-home devices can fail at something as basic as a smoke alarm.
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