Hacker News Reader

I wish there was a way to subscribe to a weekly email related to this.

There does seem to be an RSS feed: http://distill.pub/rss.xml Although it is not advertised on the website (I did view-source to find it).

Should you plug that in to IFTTT, Zapier, or something to that extent, you hopefully then have a weekly feed.

Though I do agree, an option to signup to updates directly on the website would be much better ;)