Stimulated by recent indications that the binding energy of the hypertriton could be significantly larger than so far assumed, requirements of a more strongly bound 3 Λ H state for the hyperon-nucleon interaction and consequences for the binding energies of A = 4, 5 and 7 hypernuclei are investigated. As basis a Y N potential derived at next-to-leading order in chiral effective field theory is employed, Faddeev and Yakubovsky equations are solved to obtain the corresponding 3-and 4-body binding energies, respectively, and the Jacobi no-core shell model is used for 5 Λ He and 7 Λ Li. It is found that the spin-singlet Λp interaction would have to be much more attractive which can be, however, accommodated within the bounds set by the available Λp scattering data. The binding energies of the 4 Λ He hypernucleus are predicted to be closer to the empirical values than for Y N interactions that produce a more weakly bound 3 Λ H. The quality of the description of the separation energy and excitation spectrum for 7 Λ Li remains essentially unchanged.PACS. 13.75.Ev Hyperon-nucleon interactions -21.80.+a Hypernuclei -21.30.Fe Forces in hadronic systems and effective interactions arXiv:1909.02882v1 [nucl-th]