plodder vs hacker

plodder and hacker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plodder	Yes	No	No	No
hacker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hacker is a hypernym of plodder; that is, hacker is a word with a broader meaning than plodder:

Other hypernyms of plodder include drudge, hack.

plodder (noun)	hacker (noun)
someone who moves slowly	one who works hard at boring tasks
someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours	a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm
someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner	someone who plays golf poorly