I know some people like to comment on the headline rather than reading the content but that comment is literally the first line in the article:

> tldr; saw a Windows Calculator bug on reddit. Since calc.exe was open-sourced I thought I’d try to find the bug and fix it.

There are almost 8 billion people in the world. I think 17,000 people is a small number. And geeks are going to geek and nothing geekier than checking Microsoft Calculator, a simple project that everyone can relate to.

I think you are right. Another possible explanation would be a big conspiracy though, and probably the government is also involved somehow.