[jayemar]

I do the same. I do it because I subscribe to sites other than HN, and by subscribing to the HN feed I can get the articles from HN as well as the other sites I subscribe to all in the same place, ie my feed reader (also using Feedly). Nothing overly original here as I assume personal content aggregation was one of the original intentions of RSS.

[kcplate]

Exactly for me as well. I maintain a list of feeds that interest me, HN is one of those.

I’d say for general web consumption, pretty much the only way I consume anything now is if it arrived via my feeds.