"... no matter how techie or startup they sound. NY Times, WSJ, etc. They're written for too broad an audience compared to the focused info I expect to find on HN ..."
A lot of the times these articles have the benefit of being written where tech & the broader community collide. That's interesting. Also it's the comments that are spawned from an article that are the best HN component. If I wanted to read tech-articles alone I'd trawl delicious, friendfeed, twitter et.,al.