Can&#x27;t speak for parent, but I didn&#x27;t even realize those were links until someone else in this thread pointed it out to me.  I&#x27;ll try to avoid turning this into an aesthetics vs usability rant, but gray text on a gray background with no underlining doesn&#x27;t seem like a great choice to me.<p>Incidentally, I have no trouble distinguishing the nice black underlined link in your post here on HN.  =P