[sixtofour]

Make an RSS feed for the discussions (what you're reading right now), not the articles. You can always get to the articles from the discussions.

If the RSS feed linked to the discussions I would almost never go to the HN front or new pages, and nothing would ever drop out of site (for people who use a feed reader).

As it is, I don't bother with the article feed, because the value is in the discussions as much as the articles.