I'm in very much the same boat, though I am a hacker/developer/programmer. I'm still using reddit more than HN, but I can see myself slowly gravitating towards

I'm in very much the same boat, though I am a hacker/developer/programmer. I'm still using reddit more than HN, but I can see myself slowly gravitating towards HN. One thing that really does make reddit more bearable though is to unsubscribe from most subreddits. Once you drop askreddit, iama, pics, wtf, reddit.com, funny, etc, etc, and you're left with a nice core of coding, programming, (language-of-choice-subreddit), machinelearning, compsci and webdesign, you actually start seeing the more intelligent side.