The reader I use, newsbeuter, always shows two links: the article link, and the discussions link.

http://www.newsbeuter.org

You might also be interested in trying these alternate HN feeds:

  http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

http://feeds.feedburner.com/HackerNewsFullFeed