I consider it a news aggregator. And with very insightful comments. I'll open up HN on my phone when I'm waiting around - to see what people are talking about.

I consider it a news aggregator. And with very insightful comments. I'll open up HN on my phone when I'm waiting around - to see what people are talking about. Since I can't click on the referenced articles (I white-list URLs on my iPhone), I only read the comments and not the referenced article. But even on my desktop where I don't white-list, I rarely open the referenced article. I can get a tl;dr from reading comments even if there wasn't an explicit tl;dr comment. HN has an awesome and open API so that certainly would be possible to create a weekly summary. And if it existed, I certainly would use it.