Slashdot is too noisy for me.

Aside from Hacker News, I still find some useful things on Programming Reddit, and I keep up with other tech news on Techmeme.

i've found myself going back to slashdot after a decently long absence as well, but man, it's like they are in a competition with digg over who can have the worst comment interface. it's better than it used to be, but it's way too noisy.

I still haven't figured out how the new comment interface actually works, which scores major negative points for usability. At least the old-style version was simple.