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Record 09052026 · captured 2026-08-25

Saturday, 9 May 2026

The world looked up David Attenborough. 30 tracked subjects, 25 discussions, 0 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. 788,980views

    David Attenborough

    Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster, natural historian, and writer. His presenting career began as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, and has spanned seven decades; it includes the nine documentary series forming The Life Collection, Natural Wor

  2. 361,227views

    2026 United Kingdom local elections

    Local elections in the United Kingdom were held on 7 May 2026 for 5,066 English councillors for 136 English local authorities and six directly elected mayors in England. Most of these seats in England were last up for election in 2022. Some of these elections

  3. 296,006views

    Hantavirus

    Orthohantavirus is a genus of viruses which includes all hantaviruses that cause disease in humans. Hantaviruses are naturally found primarily in rodents. In general, each hantavirus is carried by one rodent species and each rodent that carries a hantavirus ca

  4. 295,250views

    ShinyHunters

    ShinyHunters is a black-hat criminal hacker and extortion group that has been active since 2019 and is said to have been involved in a significant number of data breaches.

  5. 203,695views

    Mortal Kombat II (film)

    Mortal Kombat II is a 2026 American martial arts high fantasy film based on the video-game series created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. It is the sequel to Mortal Kombat (2021) and is the fourth installment in the Mortal Kombat film series. Directed by Simon McQ

  6. 199,082views

    2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election

    Elections to appoint the 234 members of the 17th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, the highest body of the Government of Tamil Nadu, were held on 23 April 2026. The results were declared on 4 May 2026 by the Election Commission of India. It recorded the highest

  7. 195,236views

    Suvendu Adhikari

    Suvendu Adhikari is an Indian politician who is serving as the 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal since 9 May 2026. He is the first chief minister of West Bengal belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

  8. 172,549views

    Reform UK

    Reform UK, also known as the Reform Party, is a right-wing populist and far-right political party in the United Kingdom. It has eight members of Parliament in the House of Commons, two members of the London Assembly, thirty-four members of the Senedd, seventee

  9. 169,833views

    C. Joseph Vijay

    Chandrasekaran Joseph Vijay is an Indian politician and former actor who is currently serving as the ninth chief minister of Tamil Nadu since May 2026. He is the founder and president of the political party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). Prior to entering pol

  10. 166,762views

    Richard Attenborough

    Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough was an English actor, film director, and producer. He won a total of two Academy Awards, six BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards for his directing and acting career spanning seven decades. He was knighted

  11. 158,449views

    2026 Scottish Parliament election

    An election for the Scottish Parliament was held on 7 May 2026 to elect all 129 members of the Scottish Parliament. It was the seventh general election since the devolved parliament was established in 1999. The governing Scottish National Party (SNP) secured a

  12. 155,797views

    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. His musical achievements broke American racial barrier

  13. 149,811views

    MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak

    In April 2026, an outbreak of hantavirus infection caused by the Andes virus was identified on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius. There were ten confirmed cases and two suspected cases directly linked to the outbreak as of 22 May. There have been three deaths,

  14. 128,162views

    Maria Antonia of Austria

    Maria Antonia of Austria was the eldest daughter and only surviving child of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and his first wife Margaret Theresa of Spain. She became the heiress to Habsburg Spain when her mother died in 1673. She became an electress of the Elect

  15. 127,938views

    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

  16. 126,670views

    2026 Senedd election

    An election for the Senedd was held on 7 May 2026, to elect all 96 members to the Senedd. It was the seventh devolved general election since the Senedd was established in 1999. It was the first election following numerous reforms: an increase in the size of th

  17. 119,524views

    Ted Turner

    Robert Edward Turner III was an American businessman, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel, and WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. Turner also founded t

  18. 109,547views

    Spencer Pratt

    Spencer William Pratt is an American reality television personality. In 2007, he began dating Heidi Montag, a primary cast member of the reality television series The Hills and came to prominence after being cast in the series. A feud between them and Montag's

  19. 109,490views

    Wade Wilson (criminal)

    Wade Steven Wilson is an American criminal convicted of the 2019 murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz in Cape Coral, Florida. Due to sharing the name of the Marvel character Wade "Deadpool" Wilson, Wilson has been referred to in the media as the "Deadpool

  20. 106,181views

    Michael (2026 film)

    Michael is a 2026 biographical film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan. It follows the early life of the American singer Michael Jackson, from his time with the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to the Bad World Tour in the late 1980s. Jackson is portray

  21. 105,290views

    Harold William Henry

    Harold William Henry, S.S.C., also known as Harold Hyeon in Korean, was an American-born Catholic missionary and bishop. As a member of the Missionary Society of St. Columban he was assigned to missions in South Korea. He served as the Prefect of Kwangju from

  22. 101,012views

    Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

    The chief minister of Tamil Nadu is the head of government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In accordance with the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's de jure head, while the de facto authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections

  23. 99,036views

    Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly

    The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It has a strength of 234 members, all of whom are democratically elected using the first-past-the-post system. The presiding officer of the assembly is the Spe

  24. 92,284views

    Joni Lamb

    Joni Lamb was an American Christian broadcaster who was the co-founder, president, and executive producer of the Daystar Television Network. She began to be involved in Christian television starting in the mid-1980s, and became known for her work with her firs

  25. 92,023views

    John Attenborough

    John Michael Attenborough was an English executive in the motor industry and then a financial adviser. He was the younger brother of director and actor Richard Attenborough, and the naturalist Sir David Attenborough.

  26. 90,263views

    The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim

    The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim is a South Korean streaming television series, starring Kim Sae-ron and Nam Da-reum. It is KakaoTV's first original fantasy mystery series and premiered on July 30, 2021, at 20:00 Korean Standard Time (KST), also airing three hours

  27. 85,985views

    Nigel Farage

    Nigel Paul Farage is a British politician who has been the Leader of Reform UK and a Member of Parliament for Clacton since 2024. He had previously served as the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2016, and as a membe

  28. 84,651views

    2026 Canvas data breach

    In late April 2026, Canvas LMS, a learning management system operated by private company Instructure, was affected by a data breach and outage. Instructure disclosed that it was investigating a cybersecurity attack involving certain user data, including names,

  29. 83,755views

    Álex Jiménez (footballer, born 2005)

    Alejandro "Álex" Jiménez Sánchez is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a full-back, wing-back or wide midfielder for Serie A club Fiorentina, on loan from Premier League club Bournemouth.

  30. 83,223views

    The Devil Wears Prada 2

    The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a 2026 American comedy drama film directed by David Frankel and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. A sequel to the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, it sees Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci reprising their role

Frontier 25

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

  1. 854points

    I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

    650 comments

  2. 728points

    A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

    535 comments

  3. 718points

    Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

    698 comments

  4. 702points

    Internet Archive Switzerland

    117 comments

  5. 663points

    EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

    446 comments

  6. 576points

    I’ve banned query strings

    297 comments

  7. 528points

    Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

    274 comments

  8. 479points

    LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

    201 comments

  9. 473points

    A History of IDEs at Google

    316 comments

  10. 463points

    Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable

    527 comments

  11. 425points

    The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism

    399 comments

  12. 398points

    Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

    286 comments

  13. 355points

    GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

    133 comments

  14. 292points

    Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

    85 comments

  15. 282points

    France moves to break encrypted messaging

    133 comments

  16. 274points

    Zed Editor Theme-Builder

    84 comments

  17. 265points

    Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

    130 comments

  18. 259points

    Getting arrested in Japan

    324 comments

  19. 225points

    Local privilege escalation via execve()

    107 comments

  20. 218points

    Show HN: Rust but Lisp

    74 comments

  21. 190points

    All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot

    77 comments

  22. 176points

    Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria

    87 comments

  23. 165points

    Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

    105 comments

  24. 153points

    People Hate AI Art

    175 comments

  25. 147points

    CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers

    78 comments

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2023year

    Pakistani protests: Riots broke out following the arrest of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan.

  2. 2012year

    The pilots of a Sukhoi Superjet, ignoring alerts from the terrain warning system, crashed the aircraft into Mount Salak in Indonesia, resulting in the deaths of all 45 people on board.

  3. 2005year

    Pope Benedict XVI began the beatification process for his predecessor Pope John Paul II, waiving the standard five years required after the nominee's death.

  4. 2001year

    Police at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, fired tear gas to quell unrest at a football match, leading to a stampede that killed 126 people.

  5. 1992year

    An underground methane explosion occurred at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killing all 26 Canadian coal miners who were working at the time.

  6. 1980year

    Part of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida collapsed after a pier was struck by MV Summit Venture, killing 35 people.

  7. 1979year

    Prominent Iranian Jew Habib Elghanian was executed after having been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of various charges, triggering a mass exodus of Jews from Iran.

  8. 1977year

    The Hotel Polen in Amsterdam was destroyed by fire (pictured), leaving 33 people dead.

  9. 1968year

    About 200 students at Bucks County Community College held a protest after the college canceled a planned speech by gay rights activist Dick Leitsch.

  10. 1964year

    Ngô Đình Cẩn, a younger brother and the confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed by Nguyễn Khánh's military junta.

  11. 1961year

    In a speech to U.S. broadcasters, Newton Minow, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, described commercial television programming as "a vast wasteland".

  12. 1960year

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve the use of Searle's Enovid, the first combined oral contraceptive pill.

  13. 1949year

    Rainier III became Prince of Monaco, beginning a 56-year reign, which would make him one of the longest ruling monarchs of the 20th century.

  14. 1944year

    World War II: The Japanese Take Ichi convoy arrived at Halmahera in the Dutch East Indies after losing many ships and thousands of troops to Allied attacks while attempting to carry two divisions of troops from China to New Guinea.

  15. 1918year

    First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.

  16. 1915year

    World War I: British forces launched the Battle of Aubers, an offensive on the Western Front, as part of the larger Second Battle of Artois.

  17. 1877year

    An earthquake struck northern Chile, leading to the deaths of 2,385 people, mostly victims of the ensuing tsunami, as far away as Hawaii and Fiji.

  18. 1864year

    Second Schleswig War: The Battle of Heligoland (depicted), the last naval engagement fought by squadrons of wooden ships, took place between the Danish and Austro-Prussian fleets.