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I don't know an answer but I actually miss hover states on my iPad.

This site in particular I tend to end up hitting the wrong link (usually when trying to go to comments) because I have no visual cue prior to hitting the link of what I'm hitting.

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I think designers will just have to compensate going forward with the understanding that touch controls should have a bigger hit area than pixel-precision mouse controls. We're likely far from figuring how and how long this will play out, but I often make the same mistake as you, hitting the wrong link because they are too small or too close together.

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