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Record 08082026 · captured 2026-08-25

Saturday, 8 August 2026

The world looked up Spider-Man: Brand New Day. 30 tracked subjects, 25 discussions, 1 papers. This record is frozen and will not change.

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Attention 30

What the most people looked up, ranked by Wikipedia pageviews for that day.

  1. 379,690views

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a 2026 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Pascal Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the 38th film in the Marvel Cinem

  2. 264,218views

    The Odyssey (2026 film)

    The Odyssey is a 2026 epic action fantasy film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. An adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey, it stars an ensemble cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne

  3. 218,524views

    Chris Hansen

    Christopher Edward Hansen is an American television presenter, journalist, and YouTube personality. During his tenure as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, he hosted the program's segment To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), which revolved around catching potential

  4. 180,784views

    Abdul El-Sayed

    Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, commonly known as Abdul El-Sayed, is an American politician and epidemiologist who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan. A progressive member of the Democratic Party, El-Sayed was a candi

  5. 175,351views

    Perez Hilton

    Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., known professionally as Perez Hilton, is an American blogger, columnist, and media personality. His blog is known for posts covering gossip items about celebrities, and for posting tabloid photos over which he has added his own ca

  6. 170,047views

    Primetime (film)

    Primetime is an upcoming American thriller film directed by Lance Oppenheim in his narrative feature film debut. The film is based on Luke Dittrich's 2007 Esquire article "Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die". It follows the production of the reality televis

  7. 150,242views

    Jason Arday

    Jason Atta Kwei Arday was a British academic who was a professor of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge from 2023 to 2026. Arday received international attention and resigned amid accusations of plagiarism, false claims in his research, and f

  8. 139,968views

    Zendaya

    Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman, known mononymously as Zendaya, is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Known for her work in television and blockbusters, her films as a leading actress have grossed over $9.8 billion worldwide. Her accolades include two P

  9. 131,913views

    Deaths in 2026

    The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality, what subject was

  10. 131,281views

    William Orbit

    William Mark Wainwright, nicknamed and known professionally as William Orbit, was an English musician and record producer. With a career spanning four decades, he sold over 200 million recordings worldwide of his own work, his production and song-writing work.

  11. 130,150views

    The Last House

    The Last House is a 2026 American science fiction horror film written by Matthew Robinson, and directed by Louis Leterrier. It stars Greta Lee and Wagner Moura. The film follows a family that finds themselves inexplicably sealed in their home, with the whole w

  12. 128,917views

    Tom Holland

    Thomas Stanley Holland is a British actor. His accolades include a BAFTA Award as well as two Critics' Choice Awards nominations. Holland's films as a leading actor have grossed over $14.9 billion worldwide, making him the Fourth highest-grossing actor of all

  13. 120,674views

    To Catch a Predator

    To Catch a Predator is an American reality television series in the television news magazine program Dateline NBC. The program features confrontations by host Chris Hansen, partly filmed with a hidden camera, with adult men arriving at a sting house to have se

  14. 91,826views

    .xyz

    .xyz is a top-level domain name that was proposed in ICANN's new generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program for consisting of the last three letters of the Latin-script alphabet. XYZ.com and CentralNic are the registries for the domain, which was created by entre

  15. 91,692views

    DC (film)

    DC is a 2026 Indian Tamil-language romantic action film directed by Arun Matheswaran and produced by Kalanithi Maran's Sun Pictures. The film stars Lokesh Kanagaraj, Wamiqa Gabbi and Sanjana Krishnamoorthy. It follows Das, an outlaw and Chandra, a brutalised s

  16. 91,163views

    Limonene

    Limonene is a slightly yellow-green liquid aliphatic hydrocarbon classified as a cyclic monoterpene, and is the major component in the fragrance and essential oil of citrus fruit peels, taking its name from Italian limone ("lemon").

  17. 89,234views

    Enes Kanter Freedom

    Enes Kanter Freedom is a Turkish and American human rights activist and former professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in Switzerland to parents from Turkey, he was raised in Turkey and moved to t

  18. 87,337views

    Pan Am Flight 103

    Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via stopovers in London and New York City. Shortly after 19:00 GMT on 21 December 1988, the Boeing 747 Clipper Maid of the Seas was destroyed by a bomb while flying over the Sc

  19. 86,519views

    Haynes King (American football)

    Haynes King is an American professional football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the P

  20. 86,195views

    Neatsville, Kentucky

    Neatsville is an unincorporated community in Adair County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is located at the junction of Kentucky Route 206 and Kentucky Route 76. Its elevation is 705 feet (215 m). For unknown reasons, the town's name was spelled as Neetsvil

  21. 73,552views

    Big Brother 28 (American season)

    Big Brother 28 is the twenty-eighth season of the American reality television program Big Brother. The program is an adaptation of the franchise created in 1999 by John de Mol Jr.. The season features a time travel theme. It premiered on CBS on July 9, 2026, a

  22. 71,151views

    Amanda Knox

    Amanda Marie Knox is an American author and stand-up comedian. She came to international prominence during her trial for the November 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. The trial and her conviction were highly publicized in 2009

  23. 70,172views

    List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films

    The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) centers on American superhero films produced by Marvel Studios, based on characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics. The MCU is the shared universe in which all of the films are set. Marvel Studios has released

  24. 68,931views

    2026 in film

    2026 in film is an overview of events in the film industry scheduled to occur in 2026. Best Picture Academy Award-winners All Quiet on the Western Front and Cimarron entered the public domain this year.

  25. 68,735views

    Robert Pattinson

    Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson is an English actor. He is known for starring in both major studio productions and independent films, in which he often portrays eccentric characters across a diverse range of genres. Pattinson has been ranked among the world's

  26. 67,429views

    Rodri

    Rodrigo Hernández Cascante, known simply as Rodri or Rodrigo, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona and captains the Spain national team. Widely regarded as one of the best midfielders in the world,

  27. 64,308views

    Sterling Point

    Sterling Point is an American drama television series created by Megan Park and starring Ella Rubin, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie, Amélie Hoeferle, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Bo Bragason, and Keen Ruffalo. The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on August 5, 2026. In Aug

  28. 62,643views

    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    Spider-Man: No Way Home is a 2021 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Pascal Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecomin

  29. 60,383views

    Sydney Towle

    Sydney Elizabeth Towle was an American social media content creator who gained recognition for documenting her experience with metastatic cholangiocarcinoma, a rare bile duct cancer.

  30. 58,652views

    Odyssey

    The Odyssey is one of two major epics of ancient Greek literature attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and remains popular with modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books. It follows the heroic

Frontier 25

What the people building things argued about, from Hacker News.

  1. 946points

    “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

    590 comments

  2. 658points

    Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments

    282 comments

  3. 547points

    My server is a phone now

    252 comments

  4. 518points

    Fastmail offers EU data region

    296 comments

  5. 449points

    DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

    130 comments

  6. 443points

    _for-sale DNS records

    168 comments

  7. 434points

    Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

    434 comments

  8. 406points

    The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

    216 comments

  9. 386points

    Dithered QR Codes

    45 comments

  10. 382points

    Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

    108 comments

  11. 382points

    NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

    82 comments

  12. 345points

    We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

    261 comments

  13. 329points

    Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

    305 comments

  14. 322points

    US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

    534 comments

  15. 309points

    Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

    281 comments

  16. 265points

    Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

    168 comments

  17. 265points

    Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

    168 comments

  18. 246points

    New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

    323 comments

  19. 218points

    Don't use your phone while you poop

    224 comments

  20. 217points

    Making an AI bid writer refuse to lie

    0 comments

  21. 215points

    Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

    49 comments

  22. 213points

    Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

    198 comments

  23. 213points

    Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme

    89 comments

  24. 199points

    Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

    69 comments

  25. 193points

    Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

    205 comments

Research 1

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2608.04893

    When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs

    Multi-agent LLM systems relay key--value caches instead of text and credit their gains to exchanged ``latent thoughts''. That credit is a claim about \emph{which} example's cache is relayed, not merely that one is. We audit it causally in released systems. The cache is replaced with deranged (mismatched-example), zeroed, and moment-matched random counterparts, under two regimes defined by whether the rece

    Cheng, Jiaming, Das, Subhransu, Ramnath, Rajiv

On this calendar day 18

Notable events recorded on this day and month across all years.

  1. 2014year

    The World Health Organization declared the Western African Ebola epidemic, which began in December 2013, to be a public health emergency of international concern.

  2. 2010year

    A massive mudslide in the Chinese province of Gansu killed at least 1,471 people.

  3. 2009year

    Nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey.

  4. 2008year

    A EuroCity train en route to Prague struck a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the track near Studénka station and derailed, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

  5. 1998year

    The Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, was raided by Taliban leading to the death of 10 Iranian diplomats and an Iranian journalist.

  6. 1991year

    Hudson Volcano in Chile began to erupt, depositing volcanic ash over 150,000 square kilometres (58,000 sq mi).

  7. 1991year

    The Warsaw radio mast (pictured), then the tallest structure ever built, at 646.38 metres (2,120.7 ft), collapsed due to an error in exchanging the guys on the highest telecommunications equipment of the mast.

  8. 1988year

    Tropical Storm Beryl formed over southeastern Louisiana, making it one of the few tropical cyclones to form over land.

  9. 1988year

    A series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots, which became known as the 8888 Uprising, began against the one-party state of the Burma Socialist Programme Party.

  10. 1969year

    At a zebra crossing (pictured) on Abbey Road in London, Iain Macmillan took the photograph that was used for the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.

  11. 1969year

    At a zebra crossing in London (pictured), photographer Iain Macmillan took the photo that was used for the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.

  12. 1956year

    A mining disaster killed 262 workers, mainly Italian nationals, at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Belgium.

  13. 1929year

    The German airship Graf Zeppelin departed Lakehurst, New Jersey, on a flight to circumnavigate the world.

  14. 1919year

    The Third Anglo-Afghan War ended with the United Kingdom signing a treaty to recognise the independence of the Emirate of Afghanistan.

  15. 1918year

    The Battle of Amiens began in northern France, marking the start of the Allies' Hundred Days Offensive through the German front lines that ultimately led to the end of World War I.

  16. 1914year

    The Endurance departed Plymouth, England, on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

  17. 1695year

    The foundation for what is now known as the Wren Building, the oldest surviving college building in the United States, was laid in a ceremony at Middle Plantation, Virginia.

  18. 1576year

    The cornerstone of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's observatory Uraniborg was laid on the island of Hven.