The article is titled “Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10,000 to leave California”
… and is about a program that pays people to relocate to Tulsa.
To be fair, that title really isn't engendering understanding.
To be fair, I expect people to at least make it to the second sentence of an article on Hacker News before rushing to criticize people in the comments.
Sentence number 2:
"The program, started by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, is paying people $10,000 to move to Tulsa, Okla"