New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers • Hacker News Board

Re: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by rdiddly » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 4:50 PM UTC

MostlyStable wrote: post #64

rdiddly wrote: post #32

4th Amendment, unreasonable search. And of course the 2nd, but the former is more worrying. Also if printing is speech, then you can add the 1st to the list as well.

The 4th amendment has probably been the most eroded of all the major private liberty amendments, in my opinion. It is, at this point, a pretty worn fig leaf.

Eyes on the prize, friend, and don't capitulate prematurely.

Re: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by krunck » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 4:50 PM UTC

For hundreds of years people have been making guns without 3D printers and CNC mills. All that is needed is some metal machining skills, a lathe, and some other tools.

Re: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by talkinghead » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 4:50 PM UTC

perhaps people printing their own guns at home is actually quite bad and in fact should be controlled in some way without it being seen as a fundamental incursion on your rights.

just a thought from across the pond.

Re: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by ryandrake » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 4:50 PM UTC

kstrauser wrote: post #27

RajT88 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is more like installing anti-virus on your 3d printer.

I don’t want an antivirus on my (hypothetical because I don’t have one) 3D printer. I want it to dumbly print whatever it is I send to it.

I want all my tools to dumbly operate on whatever I'm working on. Imagine if lathes were required to try to guess whether you're reboring a rifle barrel and stopped themselves from running. Or if a bandsaw had to detect whether what you are cutting was gun shaped. Totally ridiculous. [EDIT: Looks like these examples were already brought up in the article, since they're obvious]

Re: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by TehCorwiz » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

derekdahmer wrote: post #67

pjc50 wrote: post #33

This is insanely stupid stuff. Even the UK with our weird panic over Incredibly Specific Knives hasn't tried to do this kind of technical restriction to prevent people printing guns. Why not? Because nobody is printing guns! It's an infeasible solution to a non-problem! Someone should dig into who this is coming from and why. The answers are usually either (a) they got paid to do it by a company selling the tech, whi…

Actual shootings with 3D printed guns are relatively rare but it’s come up because Luigi Mangione killed the United Healthcare CEO with one.

And they're still doing anything except addressing the grievances that lead to that.

EDIT: I think you mean "allegedly"

Re: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by BanazirGalbasi » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

derekdahmer wrote: post #67

pjc50 wrote: post #33

This is insanely stupid stuff. Even the UK with our weird panic over Incredibly Specific Knives hasn't tried to do this kind of technical restriction to prevent people printing guns. Why not? Because nobody is printing guns! It's an infeasible solution to a non-problem! Someone should dig into who this is coming from and why. The answers are usually either (a) they got paid to do it by a company selling the tech, whi…

Actual shootings with 3D printed guns are relatively rare but it’s come up because Luigi Mangione killed the United Healthcare CEO with one.

That case started over a year ago, I would have expected the topic to come up long ago if this was motivated by the shooting. Granted, lawmaking takes longer than public sentiment lasts, but I didn't really hear much about 3D-printed guns at the time.

Re: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by leetrout » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

SirMaster wrote: post #14

But not CNC machines?

And muzzleloaders are pretty well unregulated.

Re: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by bieganski » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

"preventing firearms printing", aka "securing big companies' income from spare parts selling with 500% margin"

Re: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by frenchtoast8 » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

scratchyone wrote: post #37

Second half of this article has signs of AI slop, as confirmed by Pangram: https://i.imgur.com/gGIAApA.png Hard to trust an article like this when the legal analysis and suggestions are being outsourced to an LLM.

Not all AI assisted writing is "slop," especially if, as your screenshot shows, significant portions of the article were written by a human. Drawing attention to any and all hints of AI assisted writing is not the public service announcement you think it is.

Are there specific parts of the article which are inaccurate or misleading? If so please say, it would be very interesting and add to the discussion.

Re: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by analog31 » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #7

I don't think they know what Ctrl+Alt+Delete means. They want to restart it? They want to go to the screen where you can switch users or sign out? Do they think it's just a fancier way of saying delete?

It's the same as control open-apple reset.