Whatever Happened to Quantum Computing?

There are posts pretty much every day. Past week:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

In particular, this post from 4 days ago looks relevant: "Quantum Computers: A Brief Assessment of Progress in the Past Decade" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31565627 (I have not read it.)

the "current state" of quantum computing is dependent on the observer.