Ask HN: Let's Discuss Hacker News' Logo Icon

I sometimes zoom into Hackernews in my browser, and something caught my eye. The small Y logo in the top left of the screen is not a vector graphic. I am referring to the graphic located here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.gif

Instead when I zoom in, I get a blurry image since it's actually a raster (GIF) image. Can whoever is in charge of HN's site design convert this to an SVG image? If we're worried about compatibility, SVG works in all modern browsers and is an underused and unappreciated file format. A small tweak will go a long way.