[stu2010]

You cannot actually do this at npmjs.org, regularly used packages can only be marked "deprecated" now: https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/unpublish

[rahimnathwani]

The article mentions this, and links to the same page.

[velcrovan]

Still, though, could there not be a similar scheme where instead of unpublishing the module, the maintainer intentionally inserts a divide by zero somewhere and pushes it as a minor update?

[rahimnathwani]

To my mind, that crosses some invisible line, that unpublishing a module does not.

[maccolgan]

What would divide by zero do for a JS dependency?

[itstaken]

That's how you break the web