Why would HN refuse to provide a useful RSS feed / a non standard compliant one (number of comments/points/time of submission/id) that could be used to develop apps for a better reading experience? http://api.ihackernews.com/ is unreliable at best.

I'm working on something right now and this limitation causes difficulties. (http://cl.ly/241x3F3d123P0w0L1s3q)