Only if you click on it [link], then it gets faded because it's been visited. HN uses a <font> tag in the source, which is overridden by the css for links. I r

Only if you click on it [link], then it gets faded because it's been visited. HN uses a <font> tag in the source, which is overridden by the css for links. I reckon a <span> tag with inline css would work better.