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> i wouldn't use a RSS feed of Hacker News because I probably only look at 1 in 10 articles on it.

The popular HN RSS feed generator linked elsewhere in this page allows for a ton of customization! You can filter by points and raise the floor until you get a reasonable number of articles per week.

> Possibly the only bugbear I have around the RSS ecosystem these days is that some authors don't include the full content in the RSS feed

My RSS reader (miniflux) has a handy feature for getting around these. It even works for naïve paywalls (like the New Yorker’s, for example). It basically cURL’s the original address of the content and allows you to specify the content with a CSS selector. It’s some trouble to configure initially, but very handy!