HN is a weakness of mine on that front. After any day that I didn't check the top submissions at least a few times I'm worried at what I might've missed. I used to have an RSS feed of everything that gained at least x points (x=75 I think) but it was too much, and not really because of the value of x.
What's the 'slow news' way of getting (a proper subset of) HN-style content?