he/him 
You know, it's interesting that npm supports installing tarballs from literally anywhere, but we all publish to the public npm registry
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? you're talking about linking directly to a gist or github repo
You can pin a git repo to a specific commit, branch, or tag. Doesn't that do what you want?
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yep! pinning to commit is the only one guaranteed to not have code change. can still push to branches etc. Just sayin' I think that's why most people don't point to any URL - npm will download whatever the latest code is at different times
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Well, since pinning to commit is best, and SHAs are terrible to type, what if you put a redirect service in front that redirected to the right commit? Then the "public registry" would literally just be a service that issues redirects.
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