Hacker News: Volv

New comment by Volv in "The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain"

Volv — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:11:47 +0000

Its fine on PC with AdBlock. Possibly that's all they test. I sometimes wonder how these devs can sleep at night - random news websites. in the UK the sun or similar - unreadable nonsense auto play videos pop over ads etc etc. I imagine they start at - don't block ads somehow - your problem.

New comment by Volv in "Show HN: Space Invaders in the URL"

Volv — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 08:31:16 +0000

Its interesting to me how many people complain about the history / request a back button / link.

I agree that sites shouldn't break history but tabs have made the back button almost obsolete to me.

Everything is middle clicked for new tab / middle clicked away when done.

I messed around with the site. Middle clicked it away and ended up here as I'd opened the comments in a new tab before I started. Didn't even notice the history issue.

New comment by Volv in "Winamp2-Js: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript"

Volv — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 07:05:44 +0000

Still have my skin of choice in my old "Install" folder.

Plasmation - http://volv.org/plasmation-1.zip

Brings back tons of memories :)

New comment by Volv in "The first web site"

Volv — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:08:15 +0000

From Tim Berners-Lee - "Some tags take parameters, called attributes. The attributes are given after the tag, separated by spaces. Certain attributes have an effect simply by their presence, others are followed by an equals sign and a value. (See the Anchor tag, for example). The names of tags and attributes are not case sensitive: they may be in lower, upper, or mixed case with exactly the same meaning. (In this document they are generally represented in upper case.)"

https://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/...

New comment by Volv in "Hacker Foods: Hard Boiled Eggs"

Volv — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 23:35:48 +0000

Agreed with the cold water.

I boil em up. Drain the water. Use a spoon to lift one and run it under cold tap for a few seconds, then give it a good little whack to get it started and then just go for it.

If I hesitate it all goes wrong. Just have to believe that egg shell is coming off :) Run fingers all round it before it gets too hot to hold again.