With https://news.ycombinator.com/rss through Feedly, for me.

Check out below link to get more customized, topic wise rss feeds.

https://hnrss.github.io/

protopage is a fine page

Sorry for slow reply! I don't know exactly how it works but I believe I'm receiving a feed of articles that reach the front page. I use it so I can consume new stuff without having to manually re-review the actual website myself.