The feed is more or less done. 

http://static.scripting.com/hackernews/rss.xml  

Each item points to the article being linked to from the Hacker News entry. The link points to the HN discussion page. 

The feed is realtime, it has a functional element, and the notification server works (at least for now, knock wood, praise Murphy). 

I am following it in my personal river. It's a lot of news, but I like having it there. 

You're welcome to poll it, but it only updates at most once a minute, so there's no point in polling more frequently. 

The source of the flow is http://api.ihackernews.com/new. 

PS: Lots of interesting comments about the feed over on Hacker News.  

PPS: The Twitterfeed folk are using this feed to link the firehose to Twitter.  

PPPS: Even better, they say they're going to hook into rssCloud!!