Just started getting it from news.ycombinator.com myself. I have tried searching Google with not much help. The only thing I found was a topic on Yahoo Answers with multiple people reporting the same issue tonight.
As a further feature request, it would be really great to be able to flag/vote a diff as alarming, so it could be highlighted for more people can notice it. For example, this diff by Geico is pretty questionable:
Zephyr: Glad it's useful. It's actually super simple, and github would be overkill. It simply extracts the active query from the open page and redirects to scholar. The complete script is: