It is very nice. It doesn't include everything perfectly, seems to have problems with wikipedia articles and the crawler seems to have been banned from vimeo, but it is still my preferred starting point.
I've actually used it as the starting point for my own yahoo pipe, stripping out some of the less than stellar submissions. One thing I've noticed though is that passing the HN feed through 3 intermediaries, nirmalpatel.com, yahoo and then google reader, does slow down the flow of news articles.
I've actually used it as the starting point for my own yahoo pipe, stripping out some of the less than stellar submissions. One thing I've noticed though is that passing the HN feed through 3 intermediaries, nirmalpatel.com, yahoo and then google reader, does slow down the flow of news articles.