Off topic for this post. This may sound snarky, but I’m saying in all seriousness. HN needs more people to volunteer their time and effort for free to improve its UX, which has been terrible on mobile/tablets, really bad for accessibility, and so on. All this while retaining the core of HN’s simplicity on any web browser (without extensions or HN specific apps). I’ve been waiting for years to see some change, but now this logo change gives me hope.
That's already happened, the forum UI is atrocious, but the Hack mobile app is one of the best forum reading app out there, so it's not a matter of more people volunteering time, it's about HN not willing to implement any improvements
