Hacker News Reader

There’s quite a lot of trash flagged for very good reasons, though. I cannot keep up with the full feed.

I can usually power through the RSS feed pretty quickly. My reader shows only titles, so I swipe on a lot of stuff that doesn’t seem relevant. I can then take my time with the good stuff.

Indeed. Some of the most interesting stories on HN never make it past the initial filter. I've seen great posts slip by in obscurity only to get hundreds of votes and hit the front page weeks or months later. There's a lot indeterminism in what makes it to the front page(s) and what doesn't.

Keep in mind this wonderful alternate HN front-send site - it's pretty much taken over for me vs hitting HN's main page: https://hckrnews.com/

This site displays the posted links in chronological order which means stuff that suddenly got booted off the front page still shows up.

That's what I use as well. I wish I could find a good iOS client that supports that style of chronological, but front page posts.