Ask HN: How do you consume Hacker News?

Re:Ask HN: How do you consume Hacker News? by benwr on Sunday November 22, 2009 @05:43PM (#956335)

I use Google Reader, but you're right. There isn't enough information in the RSS feed to make it really enjoyable to use. You have to judge what you want to read based solely on the title. One thing that helps, for firefox users at least, is the "Better GReader" extension. It lets you open the link in the article header in an iframe, instead of a new window/tab. This makes perusal of the actual article much faster.

One other useful feature for the RSS feed (beyond the current rank) might be the top comments on an article, instead of just a link to the comments page.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you consume Hacker News? by tinio on Monday November 23, 2009 @01:55AM (#956993)

I've been using an RSS feed I created for a while now which also "tries" to include a summary of the article.

feed://ynewsrss.appspot.com/

It's not perfect, but it helps out quite a bit in getting a little bit more context before deciding to click through a link.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you consume Hacker News? by tptacek on Sunday November 22, 2009 @06:49PM (#956434)

I really wish the RSS entries had score and number of comments in it, along with the domain from the story.

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